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whom I confided the scheme said it would 

 not be successful; that when the blue border 

 was in its prime, the pink one would be 

 without flowers, in fact, that the four bor- 

 ders would never be equally handsome or 

 all in such a condition at the same time, 

 that their color would at once strike the 

 eye. But this has proved to be a mistake. 

 The borders are always full of color from 

 the end of May until everything is killed 

 by the frost. 



At the back of each of the borders Holly- 

 hocks were planted closely together, white in 

 the white border, pink and red in the bor- 

 ders for those colors, and, as I know of no 

 blue Hollyhocks, pale yellow ones were put 

 at the back of the blue border. Other plants 

 were set in clumps of four to six, with four 

 or more clumps of each kind. Summer 

 flowering bulbs and annuals were then 

 planted about the first of June in all the 

 crevices to help out late August and Sep- 

 tember. 



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