buffy gold. 



When these super-beauties have done 

 flowering one does not have the ripening of 

 the tuber or bulb to wait for during the un- 

 attractive yellowing stages, because the pot 

 and all is lifted out and placed in an obscure 

 but sunny place in the garden, to proceed with 

 the ripening process. Then from a reserve 

 store you plunge another pot in the vacant 

 place and the process of succession goes on. 



I was so excited and enraptured over a 

 mass of lilies away up high in a rock garden 

 that I was privileged to climb up and see how 

 it had been accomplished. Such clever cun- 

 ning! Such ingeniousness! 



Here were dozens and dozens of pots hid- 

 den away among the rocks, covered with ferns 

 and moss and delicate vines (even many of 

 the vines were in pots), having all the grace 

 and lightness of things that had been growing 

 there forever and forever. A glowing drapery 

 of Trumpet Vine fell over rocks back of which 



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