OUR MOUNTAIN GARDEN 



nating idea was to make the flowers look as 

 if they had grown there of themselves, and 

 as I thought nature might have placed them 

 had she been inclined. In the large beds 

 of cultivated flowers near the house, this, 

 of course, was impossible, for nature never 

 decorates in quite that way. Therefore I 

 was careful to set these beds in an en- 

 vironment of lawn, which is also an arti- 

 ficial, and not a natural growth, and the 

 combination of colours in these flower 

 masses presently came to be very carefully 

 considered in the endeavour to produce a 

 well-balanced and perfectly harmonious 

 series of colour schemes from spring till 

 fall, so arranged that as fast as one set of 

 flowers faded another would blossom in its 

 place. 



Many a struggle has this idea of colour 

 combination cost me. I had no thought 

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