learning for themselves a more definite, a 

 more concrete meaning than the time worn 

 expression "blooming in their season" con- 

 veys. That sentence "blooming in their sea- 

 son" makes me very cross every time I see it 

 in print, because it means nothing it can mean 

 nothing to the beginner when planning for 

 the most familiar plants with the newer and 

 novel plants. We read, "This wonderful hy- 

 brid takes its place among the most superb 

 discoveries of the twentieth century, and 

 when in flower is strikingly beautiful, etc., 

 etc." But this does not tell us just when it is 

 in flower. And more than this, a statement 

 such as this: "In its season this plant dom- 

 inates by its beauty everything in the garden." 

 But does it tell us when we may expect "its 

 season?" Or again: "This plant has a long 

 blooming season," but we wonder and want 

 to know when, because it might indeed be a 

 "long season" for that particular plant, but a 

 short season, a week or two perhaps for its 



