196 A Little Maryland Garden 
looking, is perhaps the best of all. But what 
is the good of all this loveliness when it 
holds back till the last moment, and is 
blighted by the cold? Chrysanthemums have 
an excuse for the garden space they occupy 
all summer, for they will bloom after frost 
has driven away the other flowers, as bravely 
as if the season had just begun. The 
Chinese call them, ‘“‘the hoar-frost resisting 
flower.”” Their shades of russet and brown, 
orange and red, are suggestive of strength 
and hardiness, unlike the delicate colouring of 
the frail cosmos. 
On a mild November day I take a look 
about the garden. The honeysuckle is pre- 
senting one of its most attractive phases 
for the frost has brought out its autumn 
colouring. The foliage holds very late, 
and with the cold takes on fine shades of 
crimson and bronze. The white clover has 
come up quickly in the bare spaces on the 
lawn. It was planted rather too enthu- 
siastically, for it makes perfect cushions of 
green. The transplanted Canterbury bells 
