PAINTING THE LANDSCAPE 



to those living in other localities for me 

 to name the plants grouped together in 

 my beds, because these same plants might 

 elsewhere blossom at different times. For 

 the same reason I have found it advis- 

 able, in buying plants from a florist, to 

 buy from one whose nursery is either near 

 by, or, at least, located where the condi- 

 tions are similar as to climate. For they 

 are more likely to fulfil the promises of 

 the catalogue if they are raised in the 

 same kind of a climate as the one in which 

 they will be expected to grow. 



If, however, I cannot suggest the special 

 groups which blossom simultaneously in 

 my garden, I can say in a general way, 

 that in a cultivated border the same laws 

 of form and colour can be applied as a 

 basis of arrangement that are used in any 

 form of decorative art. The most satis- 

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