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the first season's bloom. It is thus evident that 

 keeping your favorite pansies alive and blooming 

 is only a matter of a little attention. Most of us 

 will, I presume, continue to treat the pansy as an 

 annual, because that is the easier way — ^and we 

 American gardeners are strong on easy ways! 



I aim to get on as familiar terms with the 

 so-called Scotch, or tufted pansies, that are most 

 lovely, shade-enduring, and also continuous-flow- 

 ering, though not so large. Again I have old- 

 home memories of bright little "Johnny-jump- 

 ups," appearing each year in the garden, and show- 

 ing their impish monkey-faces almost underfoot. 

 I wish I might locate a few ! I have, actually car- 

 ried along in life endured in the various city back- 

 yards in the thirty years since I saw the last of my 

 mother's garden, two peonies and some hlies-of- 

 the- valley, both coming from a bed that must have 

 been at least thirty years old then. Perhaps it is 

 foolish sentiment to cherish these plants for their 

 origin; but I am not ashamed. 



Not far from the beds of transcontinental 

 pansies there grows now a little mass of nigella, or 

 "love-in-a-mist," a charming annual, altogether 

 pleasing. Its foliage is prettily cut, and its abim- 

 dant blue flowers do seem to be mist-surrounded 

 by the f ohage, while the seed-heads that follow are 



