22 COMMON SENSE GARDENS 



and in a garden of this size the planting of the 

 flowers, the filling in with colours is a very impor- 

 tant part. Such a plan carefully carried out, 

 even in the smallest details that seem unim- 

 portant to the casual eye, and under the supervi- 

 sion of the owner, will produce results that will 

 more nearly approach in general sentiment the 

 English garden of to-day, yesterday, a hundred 

 years since. 



In a short time such a garden will become a 

 thing of beauty and will prove a joy forever to the 

 worker therein, for it is to the intimate friend of 

 the flowers that the joys of gardening are revealed, 

 to whom the confidences of the Lily and the Rose 

 are made. Its loveliness will increase from season 

 to season as Time mellows it with his unapproach- 

 able touch, adding colour and fulness to it here 

 and there, a touch which the hand of man cannot 

 counterfeit. Flowers are so much more beautiful 

 when growing amid congenial surroundings, so 

 artificial and snobbish when cut and put in vases, 

 or potted and placed in the corners of rooms or 

 on tables for decoration. Tennyson would never 

 pluck a flower and could not bear to see one 



