. Our garden flowers; a popular study of their native lands, their life histories, and their structural affiliations. Flowers. PANSY that is sold in our markets to-day. Such sizes, such combinations of colors, such weirdness of expression in quaint faces painted upon the petals were never known before. The colors now run a marvellous range: pure-white, pure-yellow deepening to orange and darkening to brown, as well as a bewildering variety of blues and purples and violets. The lowest note is a rich and velvety shade that we speak of as black, but there is no black in flowers. Our garden treatm
. Our garden flowers; a popular study of their native lands, their life histories, and their structural affiliations. Flowers. PANSY that is sold in our markets to-day. Such sizes, such combinations of colors, such weirdness of expression in quaint faces painted upon the petals were never known before. The colors now run a marvellous range: pure-white, pure-yellow deepening to orange and darkening to brown, as well as a bewildering variety of blues and purples and violets. The lowest note is a rich and velvety shade that we speak of as black, but there is no black in flowers. Our garden treatment of the Pansy leaves much to be desired. We set out beds of blooming plants in April and for a short time they are dreams of beauty; the plants are then either taken up or allowed to deteriorate and slowly to perish. The theory seems to be that as our summers are hot and may be dry, no Pansy bed can survive, so the little beauties are permitted to die or are killed outright. But with proper selection of location a Pansy bed will be a pleasure all summer long. The place must be shaded, given the morning sun, but sheltered from that of noonday and afternoon; the lea of a tree or a building is good, and frequent sprinklings are needed to keep the foliage moist. A clay well enriched will grow the largest flowers, but any good garden soil will do. These should be continually picked otherwise the bed deteriorates. The Pansy is the flower for all. It is cheap, it is hardy, it is beautiful; and its beauty is of an unusual and personal kind. The bright, cheerful, wistful, or roguish faces look up at you with so much apparent intelligence that it is hard to believe it is all a pathetic fallacy and there is nothing Garden Pansy 30-I. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Keeler, Harriet L. (Harriet
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