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 w^ill 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 father too enthu- 

 siastically, for it makes perfect cushions of 

 green. The transplanted Canterbury bells 



