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time to sow the seed, and neither kind of plant suffers by reason 

 of the other's presence. 



A turf margin should always divide borders from a walk, drive 

 or path, while an edging of some one, low-growing white flower 

 or a dwarf, ornamental grass is an advantage in all other locations 

 except, of course, the absolutely informal and very wild. 



The natural fashion of plant- 

 ing certain things should be 

 employed even though no other 

 flowers are possible — or even 

 though a large garden may be 

 laid out and luxuriantly filled 

 with all sorts of rare and beau- 

 tiful things. Certain spots will 

 admit of no other treatment, 

 and effects are possible that sur- 

 pass all others in charm through 

 this scattering with a lavish 

 hand, just as Nature herself scat- 

 ters. Every lawn thus may and 

 should have its quota of flowers 

 growing in the grass, and the 

 tiniest lawn is not too tiny to 

 be spangled, for all time, with the flowers of two early blooming 

 and consequently precious bulbous plants that are perfectly 

 hardy, and that will not be killed out by ever so close mowing. 

 And grass that is not to be cut until late and then only with a 

 scythe — meadow growth or the semi-wild — may be planted with 

 other later flowerii:ig things. 



The naturalization is accomplished most easily, I find, by 

 scattering the bulbs from a basket or pail, held high enough — 



Thirty-five by fifty feet, de^'eloped room- 

 ily by means of a vista through the 

 entrance arches to sun-dial and seat 



