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let may choose either the flower or the color for 

 theirs. Daisy is perhaps not less fortunate in the 

 variety of "day's eye" flowers that extend over 

 the entire season. And there is Lily, with glorious 

 opportunities from May to September. If there 

 be but contentment with one or two kinds of flow- 

 ers, several other feminine names, and perhaps as 

 many masculine ones, may be coupled with gardens. 

 Is it too small a thing to bestow the name of Mary's 

 garden on a generous planting of "blue-eyed 

 Mary" and "sweet Mary," or Susan's garden on 

 a grouping of the two flowers known as "black-eyed 

 Susan" ? Surely there would be something in them 

 to Mary or Susan that an acre of roses would 

 lack even though there were not a precise match- 

 ing of eyes. 



Color gardens are more dreamed of than re- 

 alized. Yet they offer a most fascinating field 

 that would not seem hedged in with trials and 

 tribulations if the first thing to remember were 

 not usually overlooked. It is this: there is no 

 statute on the books requiring a pink garden, for 

 example, to be all pink. How soon the eye would 

 tire were there not the green of the leaves; and 

 if the color why not a touch of white? The only 

 rule is to have the name color dominant, and no 

 more so than you fancy. White always is a re- 

 freshment and a bit of yellow warms up a blue 

 garden. A red garden ought not to be too red, as 

 this is a hot color in summer; use winter berries and 

 evergreen foliage in generous measure. By skill- 



