328 THE GARDEN, YOU, AND I 



this natural idea, that shall frame the different garden 

 vistas from the best vantage-point. Rustic pillars, after 

 the plan of Evan's that you sent me for the corners of 

 the rose garden, will give the necessary formal touch, 

 while groups of shrubs can be so placed as not only 

 to screen colours that should not be seen in combina- 

 tion, but to make reasons for turns that would 

 otherwise seem arbitrary. 



Aunt Lavinia has promised me any number of 

 Chinese honeysuckle vines from the little nursery 

 bed of rooted cuttings that is Martin Cortright's 

 special province, for she writes me that they began 

 with this before having seed beds for either hardy 

 plants or annuals, as they wished to have hedges of 

 flowering shrubs in lieu of fences, and some fine old 

 bushes on the place furnished ample cuttings of the 

 old-fashioned varieties, which they have supplemented. 



Aunt Lavinia also says that the purple Wisteria 

 grows easily from the beanlike seed and blossoms in 

 three years, and that she has a dozen of these two- 

 year-old seedlings that she will send me as soon as I 

 have place for them. Remembering your habit of 

 giving every old tree a vine to comfort its old age, 

 and in particular the silver maple by the lane gate of 

 your garden, with its woodpecker hole and swinging 



