LATER FLOWERS 



blooms of white and those fat podlike buds. Very 

 few flowers have a whiteness such as this. The 

 texture of the flower is richer, too, than that of 

 the whitest of white peonies. The loveliness of 

 the dwarf dahlia (yellow) fronting violet petunias 

 is quite indescribable too. 



There is something soothing in the idea of 

 flowering plants at rest. To-day I had a certain 

 pleasure in watching the long, slender shadows of 

 the flung-out canes of ramblers wreathing the dull 

 wooden gates of the garden. Those vines still 

 have a function to perform toward beauty, thought 

 I. Still they lend interest and charm, though 

 small green haws replace the rosy flowers of June. 

 A light shower has fallen to-day, and the clean 

 scent of phloxes, the delicate fragrance of petunias 

 and of sweet alyssum rise upon the still autumnal 

 air. The long shadows of half past four o'clock 

 create delightful garden studies. Then is felt that 

 dreaming stillness of a garden, which affects one 

 as a thing ineffable. 



October the 20th, and no frost still; and yet my 

 garden blooms and yields to shears and basket. 

 True, there are many browned or browning plants 

 — dried poppies, loosestrifes, statices; but dwarf 

 rambler roses are as fresh as in June; zinnias keep 



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