They are very gay and persistent whilst they last, and it is not their fault that they cannot stand our winters.
They are no invalids till frost comes.

With my personal predilections, I like even "bedding stuff" best in variety.

The varieties of what we call geraniums are many and most beautiful.

I should always prefer a group of individual specimens to a band of one.

And never have I seen the canary yellow of calceolarias to such advantage as in an "old-fashioned" rectory-garden in Yorkshire, where they were cunningly used as points of brilliancy at corners of beds mostly filled with "hardy herbaceous stuff." But there, again, one begins to spend time and taste! Let us admit that, if a little garden must be made gay by the neighbouring nurseryman, it will look very bright, on the "ribbon" system, at a minimum cost of time and trouble--_but not of money!_ Even for a little garden, bedding plants are very expensive.