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FAMILIAR GARDEN FLOWERS. 



These double varieties require a little care, or for some 

 reason or other they pass away and leave no sign. The 

 single plant will grow almost anywhere. We have seen 

 whole meadows of it in stony ground near Broadwater, in 

 Sussex, and have had the most glorious banks of it in rich 

 moist loam in our own wild garden. The ragged robin we 

 have seen making a rosy-coloured hay grass on the skirts 

 of Axe Edge, where it had nothing but stones to live upon, 

 with a ])lentiful rainfall, and took the place of grass, 

 because in those ])articular hay-fields very few grasses 

 would grow. But these doubtful varieties must be treated 

 as Alpine ])lants ; they should have a deep sandy loam for 

 uheir root-holding, and in dry weather should be treated 

 with Avatei, for ever}' lychnis loves moisture, and may soon 

 be killed by drought. 



