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The deliberate planning of any scheme intended 

 to make for shade should therefore not leave flow- 

 ers out of complete consideration. No matter 

 what the degree of shade, something there is that 

 will find a particular spot congenial. 



To make the point of complete consideration 

 more clear, it is not enough to grow roses, wistaria 

 or honeysuckle over a pergola or arbor, with per- 

 haps a hardy border outside where there is a sunny 

 exposure. So far as the flowers are concerned 

 these are sun propositions. The important thing 

 to learn is that other flowers may flourish in the 

 created shady places flowers that will utilize 

 waste spaces and sometimes prove no more trouble 

 than grass or weeds; for something must grow in 

 them, be sure of that. Call the pergola or arbor 

 such if you will; but let it be secondarily a shaded 

 garden. 



So, in a wider sense, with the whole place. If 

 the garden proper be endowed with shade, necessar- 

 ily or preferably, seize upon its shade advantages 

 and develop them to the utmost. Or it may be 

 that shade is upon one side of the garden, or the 

 garden leads into shrubbery or thin woodland ; then 

 follow out the same idea. But do not overlook the 

 lesser possibilities. Once a very pretty little shade 

 garden not more than ten feet long and three feet 

 wide was made along the stone foundation on the 

 north side of the house. Though it had the sun 

 only a little while in the morning, a couple of doz- 

 en kinds of native plants flourished there. NO 



