This country-seat was little more Than a cabin of log's; but in front of the door A modest flower-bed thickly sown With sweet alyssum and columbine Made those who saw it at once divine The touch of some other hand than his own.
Every year, in some bare places, I sow a little seed of Erinus alpinus, always trying for places where it will follow some other kind of plant, such as a place where rock Pink or Alyssumhas been.
The older plants of Alyssum are nearly worn out, but there are plenty of promising young seedlings in the lower joints.
Then follow deep-hanging curtains of Yellow Alyssumand of hybrid rock Pinks.
Even the Sweet Alyssum has the least touch of the old flavor, and mustard is very sharp.
Like the Alyssum deltoideum, it is well adapted to the decorating of walls, or rock-work, and is readily propagated either by seeds or slips.
The wind had died quite away, and a scent of alyssumfilled the air.
Glancing back as I got into my overcoat in the hall, I saw that Sally still held the spray of sweet alyssum to her lips, and that the look George bent on her was transfigured by the tenderness that flooded his face with colour.
I couldn't stand the thought of her loneliness, so I went into the drawing-room at the hour I knew she would be tending her sweet alyssum and Dicky, the canary.
In these cases the base may give off lateral stipulary processes, as in Allium and Alyssum calycinum.
It is true that the flowers of the Alyssum calicinum are of a yellow which easily passes into white, while those of the Alyssum montanum are of a beautiful permanent yellow.
Gray) sends up spikes of little flowers like a yellow sweet alyssum as early as April, and continues in bloom through June.
But alyssum may be sown right outdoors in the garden plot.
Jonathan," I said at luncheon one day, "I got the sweetalyssum seed this morning.
We said we'd put in some sweet alyssum to mark it--so it wouldn't get cut down.
My pansies and alyssum were up--at least I believed they were up, but I spent many minutes of each day kneeling by them and studying the physiognomy of their cotyledons.
Sweet alyssum and pansies," I said, "and here are the sweet peas.
It was backed with solid masses of equally vivid yellowAlyssum and chalk-white Candy-tuft, both of which had had a good start under glass in a temporary forcing bed.
I planted it once to grow under Sweet Alyssum in the little enclosure of earth behind my city home; when I returned in the autumn, everything was covered, blanketed, overwhelmed with Portulaca.
In the other end I plant sweet alyssum in memory of my baby.
A few pansies and a tuft of sweet alyssumsmiled a welcome, though all the rest of my flowers were dead.
For spring bedding, edgings, and the rock garden Aubrietias are indispensable, and they make a particularly effective show when grown in conjunction with Yellow Alyssum and White Arabis.
Sow two rows of Alyssum minimum, allowing twelve inches between the rows; one row of Dwarf Pink Godetia fifteen inches from the Alyssum; two rows of G.
She stood by the parapet, one hand lying in the white blossoming alyssum which filled its marble crevices, while she read and seriously pondered the contents of the paper.
There was such an intense earnestness in these sounds, that large tears gathered in the wide dark eyes, and fell one after another upon the sweet alyssum and maiden's-hair that grew in the crevices of the marble wall.
Now, I am going to save the rest of the space, and shall plant sweet-alyssum and candytuft, and some mignonette.
The bouvardias were quite spoiled; but the mignonette and alyssum were unharmed.
The alyssum and candytuft came out, and the house was sweet with tuberoses.
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