TEN] AMONG THE FLOWERS 
and these will be adopted. After fifty years of 
flower growing, I have a list of favorites that I can- 
not get along without. One of these, if not the 
first of all, is the old-fashioned nasturtium — a flow- 
er that never says enough, that will give you con- 
tinuous bloom, in profusion, from June till frost. 
As it grows low on the ground, it can be covered 
easily through half a dozen frosts, till there comes 
a freeze. The fragrance is wholesome, and the 
flower lasts long when cut. You can cut sprigs as 
freely as you please, and they will not be missed 
from the bed. The sweet pea well grown, as it sel- 
dom is grown, is one of the most charming plants 
in the world. I have it on trellises eight feet high, 
and from these we gather constantly great bunches 
of flowers through four months of the year. The 
trellises are just far enough apart to admit of free 
passage and sunshine. If the aster were sweet it 
would rank among the noblest of our flowers; as it 
is, few can compete with it in clean, bright, good- 
hearted blooms, coming in the cool autumn months, 
and not easily frozen. I like best those flowers that 
mark evolution, and this the asters do admirably. 
So also do the perennial phloxes— one of the 
grandest of all our flowers for country homes. But 
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