160 FAMILIAR GARDEN FLOWERS. 
border flower. At all events, when planted in the border 
it is exposed to the risk of bemg dug up and destroyed— 
a risk it shares in common with many good things that 
never last long where the practice of promiscuous digging 
of borders is permitted. The jobbing gardener appears to 
have been commissioned by Mephistopheles to crush out of 
existence all the good hardy plants, and to supply in their 
place geraniums at three shillings a dozen. He does his 
best, at all events, to annihilate daffodils, and peonies, and 
delphiniums, and day-liles, and aconites, and dielytras, 
because they do not show themselves at the time when he 
ples his spade industriously. Perhaps he ought to know 
that their roots are alive below ground, and ought not to 
be made into mincemeat ; but we must make allowances, 
for it often happens that between what is and what 
“ought” to be there is a great gulf fixed, and a man 
may be a gardener and yet not know everything. 
PrinteD By CassELL & Company, Limirep, La Bente Savvacsn, Lonpon, £.0, 
