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tobacco, cheerful balsams, and zinnias in many 

 shades. 



The perennial and biennial plants and bulbs of the 

 hardy borders we shall renew by seed or root division, 

 but the list of what were here already, or were set out 

 in November, is a brave one : peonies (colours un- 

 known), phlox, columbines, Canterbury bells, fox- 

 gloves, bleeding heart, white, yellow, and red day lilies, 

 Spanish, German, and Japan iris, honesty (lunaria), 

 golden glow rudbeckia, pyrethrum, oriental poppies, 

 hollyhocks, monkshood, anemone-Japonica, larkspurs 

 of all shades from white to deep metallic blue, hardy 

 white, pink, and red fringed pinks, lupins, evening prim- 

 roses, bee balm, and hardy pompon chrysanthemums. 



I have also here a list of roots and bedding plants 

 to stock the garden with, that I hope to keep from 

 year to year in a flower pit with a stove in it that 

 I have in mind if godmother's fifty' pounds hold out; 

 and I think they will, because Evan has been so 

 good and forgiven me a small sheaf of bills that I 

 expected to pay from it, so that it's only been sampled 

 as yet. These plants are heliotrope, scarfet and fra- 

 grant geraniums, lemon verbenas, tender roses, chrys- 

 anthemums, both Japanese and Chinese ; Dahlias 

 double, single, and cactus, and gladioli in plenty. 



How long it will seem from the time my seed list 



