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they run to flowers, but on good soil they run to 
vines. It is a proverb with me that in spring you 
cannot get too many daffodils, and in summer and 
autumn you cannot get too many nasturtiums. I 
occasionally indulge in stocks, and wall-flowers, 
and petunias, but I am writing for those who want 
lots of flowers without having to work too hard to 
get them. Snapdragons are fine for late bloom, 
and sweet alyssum. 
Try each year one or two of the new novelties 
—and occasionally you will be glad that you did. 
You should have a dahlia craze, or canna craze, 
or a carnation fever about once in five years; 
and when you do you should do your very best 
with these noble plants. Begonias are even better 
for a cottage home. I append a list of eleven 
flowering begonias, which I conceive to be among 
the very best: Alba picta, argentea guttata, gloire 
de Lorraine, decorus, dewdrop, vernon, rubra 
Sandersonii, President Carnot, robusta, hybrida 
multiflora, Bismarck. A list of fifteen ever- 
blooming cannas may be of use to some of my 
readers. I should select as the finest that I have 
ever grown, Austria, Alsace, Alphonse Bouvier, 
Charles Henderson, Florence Vaughn, Duke of 
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