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wondering just what particular reason the guilty 

 one is going to give me to account for the fact 

 that most of the seed he sold me to plant as mixed 

 Phlox Drummondii has produced plain pink 

 petunias? The petunias are not bad, but I wanted 

 phlox, and there are some among the petunias, 

 though not in predominance. 



Speaking of the petunia, what a satisfactory 

 annual it is ! When the little seedlings first appear, 

 so tiny and so weak, it is hard to believe that in 

 but a few weeks we shall be enjoying a veritable 

 cloud of bloom, if it happens to be a one-color 

 planting hke this corner of lovely Snowstorm. 

 Equally lovely are the bloom-covered plants of a 

 dwarf petunia from Sutton, which keeps within six 

 inches of the ground, blooming continually in pink- 

 and-white clouds. Yet another petunia from the 

 Enghsh seedsman is called violet on the seed- 

 packet, but its large and numerous flowers are the 

 exact purple shade of the much-desired Clematis 

 Jackmanii. From the same very careful Sutton I 

 have had and tried to succeed with nemesia, an 

 EngUsh favorite which quite evidently does not 

 find pleasure in the Breeze Hill conditions, for it 

 barely exists. 



Other annuals add to the mature beauty of the 

 September garden. The only shrubs yet blooming 



