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Updated: June 11, 2025
Once more they laughed ... and then they planted it. These have been two difficult years for me. There have been times when I have almost lost faith, and not even the glories of our own flame-flower could cheer me. But at last the news came. I was at home for the week-end and, after rather a tiring day showing visitors the north-east end of the pergola, I went indoors for a rest.
The old Greeks knew it well, and they baptized its prismatic loveliness with their sunny symbolism, and called it the Flame-Flower. These very seeds may have sprung centuries ago from the hearts of heroes who sleep at Marathon; and when their tender petals quiver in the sunlight of my garden, I shall see the gleam of Attic armor and the flash of royal souls.
"What soil is yours? Do you plant it very deep? Do they like a lot of water?" These and other technical points were put to me at once. "Those are mere details of horticulture," I said. "What I am protesting against is the whole spirit in which you approach the business the light-hearted way in which you assume that you can support a flame-flower.
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