CHAPTER XVI 

 GARDENS AND LIFE 



HE most noticeable flowers I have in 

 August are the asters, geraniums, 

 petunias, stocks, carnations, and 

 phloxes. The antirrhinums seem to 

 be always present and give almost perpetual color 

 to the beds. I have been striving for some time 

 past to weed out the pale, washed-out colors, pre- 

 serving only the rich ones with a few white and 

 clean yellows* The scarlet gladioli and some of 

 the other autumn-flowering ones have also added 

 materially to the brightness. The Japanese anem- 

 ones are announcing the approaching end of sum- 

 mer by beginning to flower very early. 



The phloxes are very large and bountiful and 

 the carnations have been bearing masses of flow- 

 er-spikes of unusual size right up to the end of 

 the month. There has been little sun and much 

 moisture, so that watering has never been neces- 



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