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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



would take in a tasteful and harmonious 

 room, for it would be impossible for him to 

 banish this conspicuous object from his eye 

 or his mind. But a loit of yellow ribbon or 

 bric-a-brac in the same room could be used 

 to draw the ej'e to some particular nice fea- 

 ture to which this bit of color would g^ive 

 life and vivacity. If the same good taste 

 that is applied to the decoration of a room be 

 applied to the grounds, the brilliantly colored 

 garden forms would be used less than they 

 are now in the lawns, and be confined more 

 to the garden. If one prefers not to have 

 the quiet restfulness of the lawn, and can- 

 not appreciate the refined beautyiof natural 

 shrubs with their ever 

 varying tints of green, 

 their graceful outlines, 

 their wealth of flow- 

 Boston, Mass. 



ers, their luxuriance of foliage, but prefers 

 to make a flower and foliage garden of all 

 his place, very gorgeous and striking com- 

 binations of color and outline can be secured 

 with garden forms, — more striking and 

 showy than any we ordinarily sec, for there 

 are many interesting varieties which are lit- 

 tle known and less used. Do not under- 

 stand me to disparage a garden. I think 

 every place should have one, and that it 

 should be made as interesting and attractive 

 as possible, but I do not think it a good 

 thing to spread it over the place. A brilliant 

 garden is as attractive as a brilliant bit of au- 

 tumn landscape, but an autumn tinted land- 

 scape throughout the .„^,.„,.„,,„,,„,,,„«g,„..,^^^ 

 season would soon make 

 one long for something 

 green to look upon. 



W. H. Manning. 



Fu;. 1751 A HoMK ON thk Hudson. 



