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associated with it. Or, where space and time at 

 one's disposal are no barrier, a garden of the year 

 could easily be created in the form of a wheel. 

 The hub should be a good-sized pool, or bird bath, 

 and from the path around it should radiate as 

 many paths as there are months. A rim could 

 be added if precise formality were desired, but 

 very often spokes of unequal length would be bet- 

 ter and these need not always, or ever, be 

 straight. 



Such a garden would develop into a perfectly 

 permissible, but rather foolish, fad if it were laid 

 out with the idea that no path was to be a pleasant 

 walk save in the month to which it is dedicated. 

 The point is not that at all; it is simply that the 

 "April path shall savor so strongly of April as to 

 make it that month's particular part of the gar- 

 den. 



The January path ought to be the way of ap- 

 proach. The chief reason is this : evergreens must 

 be the seasonal note and by the use of these a 

 permanently attractive entrance may be made. 

 Moreover, their green will always be the best of 

 frames for the color that the July path, directly 

 opposite, will bring into the vista. The ever- 

 greens will have to spread into the February path 

 on one side and the December path on the other. 

 So long as it ceases to be dominant, the note may 

 extend to any or all of the other paths. 



It would be possible in a fairly cold climate, say 

 southern New England, to have at least one dis- 



