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Excerpt from Our Sentimental Garden
Extraordinarily so. It will instantly be perceived what kind of gardeners we are, and what kind of garden we keep. We have scarcely a single plant of individuality. We do not spend ten guineas on a jonquil bulb, nor fifteen on a peony. To our mind no flower can be common: therefore we lavish our resources on quantity. I was going to say: not quality, but that is where, in our opinion, the modern kind of garden maker goes wrong. What is in a name? Where flowers are concerned, nothing But how much, what treasures of joy and colour, of shade and exquisite texture, of general blessedness in fact, lurk in the beloved crowd of the name. Less things, that come to us designated only thus: Best mixed Darwin Tulips Blue bedding Hyacinths Single Jonquils, best mixed, and so on We once de scended so far as to order a hundred mixed Delphiniums at and when, last June, we looked down on a certain.
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