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also a great deal of interest attached to the 
getting together of a collection of different 
varieties of the same family. Some collect 
pinks, others auriculas ; some find they are 
satisfied with daffodils in their hundreds of 
different kinds ; but the quest of some old, rare 
flower in an out-of-the-world garden, or in 
some small country nursery garden, is as keen 
a joy when rewarded by a find, as is that of 
the collector of prints or china who finds some 
piece just needed to round off his collection. 
To others the acquisition of the newest has 
the same effect ; and, again, there are those to 
whom the joy of securing a lovely picture in 
different tones and colours of one flower, such 
as the wallflower or the primrose, is sufficient 
reward. And for those who perhaps can only 
visit their gardens at certain seasons of the 
year, this is one of the best ways of enjoying 
them. 
There are some gardeners who, knowing 
either through pictures or from old catalogues 
or books, that certain forms have once existed, 
will leave no stone unturned to find that 
particular plant again. Some of the double 
rockets have been reintroduced through the 
untiring efforts of a devotee ; and there is a 
certain white pink, with a ^lack blotch on it, 
