. My garden in summer . chen gatden borders to cut from. Unlessthey can be grown on the top of a wall or in vases, sothat the flowers may hang down in their natural way, I donot greatly care for the effect of them in the borders wherethey require staking. Those one sees growing in old biscuittins, the remnants of a broken china jug or a woodenbox, in Italian or Tyrolean window-sills and balconies,seem to me to be the most perfectly beautiful. I haveseen them with stems thicker than my thumb (which is asturdy and large one as thumbs go), and certainly no lessthan four years old, hanging down fo
. My garden in summer . chen gatden borders to cut from. Unlessthey can be grown on the top of a wall or in vases, sothat the flowers may hang down in their natural way, I donot greatly care for the effect of them in the borders wherethey require staking. Those one sees growing in old biscuittins, the remnants of a broken china jug or a woodenbox, in Italian or Tyrolean window-sills and balconies,seem to me to be the most perfectly beautiful. I haveseen them with stems thicker than my thumb (which is asturdy and large one as thumbs go), and certainly no lessthan four years old, hanging down for quite a yard, anda mass of bloom above steely blue leaves, the picture ofhealth, and I have longed to have a few like them. Butalas ! they do not grow old gracefully here, so I grow year-lings, and cut their long stems, buds and all. Trojan wethink the best white for our purpose, as it produces sucha harvest of large flowers on splendidly stiff, tall Castle, although it is poor in shape and often bursts 266. iiorder Carnation, ? Keiiown.(See V. 267.) Flowers for Cutting its calyx, is such a delightfully soft, pure pink that I havenever found any among the dozens I have tried that givesme such pleasure and such large basketfuls. Duchess ofWellington, a pinkish mauve, is also stout-stemmed andlavish in flowers, and goes wonderfully well with thewhite Trojans and pink Rabys, either all mixed in onevase, or each in a separate one, and stood together on aflower table. The pink of Raby Castle is charming, to6,with the old red Cloves, but they are rather tiresome, as theyrequire looking over daily and renewing so often, for agedblooms turn such a bad colour and curl up so have not yet found a pure yellow that is quitesuitable to this garden and my requirements. YellowQueen succeeds best, but it has rather thin stalks and adangling habit. Miss Audrey Campbell does not growhere very freely, and the beautiful yellows of recent daysare not hardy enough for us, nee
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