A GARDEN NOTE-BOOK 



drilli of Naples lists as many as sixty-one zinnias 

 in this year's catalogue, this, of course, including 

 not only varieties but colors. In connection with 

 a certain double variety, the English language in 

 this list is thus dealt with: "Perfect in respect of 

 doubleness and colors; possesses not any more the 

 stiflFness blamed of the single-flowering varieties." 

 The time draws near when we must move to 

 cover our treasures of geraniums. This is a 

 flower, a plant, to which I am devotedly attached. 

 Ours are now great plants with two to three foot 

 stems. Four are suflScient to furnish one of the 

 large Galloway terra-cotta pots familiar to most 

 people to-day; the plants are six years old. The 

 bold, angular outlines of their stems bear an 

 amusing resemblance to an apple-tree; it may be 

 partly that which gives me the pleasure I have in 

 seeing them all summer on the wall of an open 

 terrace which faces the orchard. There is the 

 suggestion of correspondence or of repetition of 

 line which gives such satisfaction to the eye. 

 The method by which we keep the large geraniums 

 from year to year may be worth remembering, for 

 spreading geraniums such as these are to be had 

 from no florist or plantsman. These are Mrs. 

 E. G. Hill, the fine salmon-pink single. In late 



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