COLOUR IN MY GARDEN 



strained calyxes. Cyclops is a lovely clear rose-coloured 

 single Pink with a crimson inner circle and Delicata is a 

 pretty flushed sort. After the first prodigal flowering these 

 Pinks should be well cut over, all the faded flowers removed, 

 and the old shoots shortened. This done, there will be a 

 second more delicate flowering and the plants will retain 

 their tidy forms and tender gray colour until well into the 

 winter. There are few more brilliant plants than the 

 hybrid Pink, or Mule Pink, Napoleon III. It produces its 

 double blossoms on stiff stems with the utmost generosity, 

 but unfortunately its generosity often means its death. 

 More easily managed Mules are Fettes Mount and Fuerst 

 Bismarck, both lovely shades of pure pink and very fragrant. 

 The latter has proved so truly perpetual flowering in my 

 garden that it formed, this autumn, with a few purple 

 Horned Violets, the very last posy to be brought into the 

 house. Many of the wild Pinks grow freely in the ordinary 

 garden, but these were treated somewhat at length in "My 

 Garden." No garden is too small for many Pinks. The plants 

 require little room and will flower freely in any sunny corner. 

 I tuck them all about in nooks and corners, allowing them 

 to seed themselves into all sorts of places where I would not 

 dare to put them. They grow in crevices of the stone steps, 

 in the retaining walls, in little patches in the gravel walks. 

 I can seldom bear to disturb them, unless they are actually 

 in a way to obstruct traffic. An edging of double white or 

 single white fringed Pinks, Nepeta Mussini and gay pink 

 Thrift, is the very prettiest thing I know. The best Thrift 

 for this association is plantaginea, a variety of Armeria 

 cephalotes (syn. formosa), that bears its rosy globes on 



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