COLOUR IN MY GARDEN 



Madame Eugene Resal, pink and orange; Mile, de la 

 Vellette, very brilliant orange and vermilion; Queen Mab, 

 soft blush and yellow; Laurette Messimy, rose and amber; 

 Arethusa, apricot and yellow; Ducher, white, and Mrs. 

 Bosanquet, blush. Beds of the " Old Blush " China Rose and 

 Nepeta Mussini are charming all through the season. 

 Violas may be raised from seed and started indoors in 

 March and will commence to bloom in July, continuing until 

 frost, and starting in again in late May with the Roses. 



Of course all such beds must be looked after very care- 

 fully; plants kept from straggling, edges trimmed with 

 precision, weeds removed, and the whole kept watered and 

 cultivated. In such conventional planting we may admit 

 of no dwindling or pining, no sprawling or untidiness of any 

 sort, for it is upon the crisp artificiality of its perfection 

 that the beauty and usefulness of bedding out is contingent. 



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