158 FLOWER GARDENING 



gresses as lantern views dissolve one into another. 



This requires an accurate knowledge not of all 

 plants, but of enough to provide adequate working 

 material. If perennials are used, and they are best, 

 it is not a small undertaking to arrange a succession 

 of plants that shall develop four distinct seasonal 

 pictures, with no more bareness between times than 

 san be avoided. It is worth trying, however. If 

 failure comes, that will not rob the gardener of all 

 his joy; some of it will have been the experience in 

 the planning. 



A good compromise is to use a spot for only two 

 pictures and these quite widely apart as to season. 

 Thus the tall single cottage tulip might be planted 

 behind hardy candytuft for a May effect and aut- 

 umn monkshood for an October one. The candy- 

 tuft is evergreen and the foliage of the monkshood 

 is fine all summer which illustrates the need in 

 picture composition of knowing much about leaves, 

 as well as blossoms, height, season, habit and so 

 on. 



Foliage is of untold color, as well as form, value. 

 Besides every conceivable shade of green, there are 

 gray, yellows and whites with red entering into 

 the death notes of autumn and the life notes of 

 spring. Twigs and stalks, too, are not all green; 

 there are red, brown, yellow and gray ones. And 

 the berries ; they may be red, black, blue, yellow or 

 white. 



Color supplied by blossoms, as has been said, is 

 not indispensable. Its place in a garden picture is 



