CHAPTER XV 

 SEASONAL EFFECTS WITH FLOWERS 



IN the "Royall Ordering of Gardens," Bacon 

 held that "there ought to be Gardens for all the 

 Moneths in the Yeare: In which, severally, 

 Things of Beautie may be then in Season." 



Though the writer had princely magnitude in 

 mind, this is a suggestion that might be carried 

 out on a place of even moderate size without any 

 appalling difficulties to overcome. All that is nec- 

 essary is to pick out an even dozen spots on the 

 home grounds and see that each has a dominant 

 note characteristic of a certain month of the year. 

 Geographical sequence is quite unimportant. Nor 

 does it matter at all whether in each, or in any, 

 case there is actually a garden. Thus a colony 

 of snowdrops in a warm spot would not be too 

 small to be called the February garden. It is 

 no one's business but your own how much play 

 you allow your imagination. 



In a single garden, especially if it be of irregular 

 design, it requires no great amount of ingenuity 

 so to plant the plot that in every month of the 

 year some one spot will have a glory unmistakably 



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