156 Cfte (SarDcn's Storp. 



to place it close to gravel-walks, where the seeds 

 are apt to drop and cause no little trouble ; they 

 germinate so freely. Seeds should be saved 

 from the best kinds, most desirable colors, and 

 strongest trusses. The Eschscholtzia and Core- 

 opsis become almost a pest unless the seed-cap- 

 sules are cut off, and the Calendula is also 

 troublesome in this respect ; but the latter may 

 be excused, it is so warm and steadfast in late 

 autumn when we could hardly do without it for 

 cut flowers. 



With the sweet-william is often associated 

 another old garden favorite, the snow-pink (Di- 

 anthus plumarius), a charming subject when 

 well grown. I once saw an immense patch of 

 this in front of a country cottage, growing so 

 luxuriantly that the fragrance drifted far out on 

 to the highway. I stopped to inquire of the 

 genius loci, who was busy with her watering- 

 can, how she grew them so finely and so pro- 

 fusely. " I pinch them, give them plenty of 

 water, and keep up a fresh stock from cuttings 

 every two years." The old story, I thought ; 

 new words to the old tune "care." 



The large bell-flowers are doing excellent 

 duty as flowering-plants, notably the old-fash- 

 ioned Canterbury bells (Campanula medium). 

 Their immense scalloped goblets of diversified 



