OUR COUNTRY LIFE 



Coubert," which has flourished so gayly at each side 

 of the forest gate, will have to find more space in 

 which to extend its thorny branches. 



The boltonias against the wall in the west border 

 are so like wild flowers that they make a connecting 

 link between the phlox and anemone within and the 

 rudbeckias of various kinds without the little garden. 

 The vagaries of plants! One year we had hollyhocks 

 just outside the wall; evidently they regarded the 

 flowers inside with envious eyes, for ever since then, 

 hollyhocks, pink, white, and crimson, have appeared in 

 places unconventional within the small enclosure. 

 When they thus select their own abode they seem to 

 think that they must justify themselves in order to be 

 let alone, so they expand with unusual beauty. Who 

 could have the heart to disturb that staff of rosy bloom 

 springing, alas! too near the border's edge? 'We 

 will leave it just this season," we say, hoping that next 

 year it will choose another spot. 



The pale blue salvia (farinaceous) too, — planted 

 quite properly beside the wall, — what would a foreign 



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