LITTLE GARDENS 



and run a barbed wire or electrified netting along 

 your side of It. If you have a fence, make It as 

 Innocuous as possible by coloring It a light and 

 cheerful green, to conform to the vegetation. Do 

 not paint it: stain it; and don't, for goodness' 

 sake, make it a bilious green, but a yellow green. 

 That shade of yellow which in the speech of the 

 commoner Is denoted as " yaller " suggests liver 

 complaint; but yellow Is a color to use without a 

 green admixture, if your yard is a haunt of shad- 

 ows, and needs inspiriting. Yellow Is the sunni- 

 est, happiest color in the world, though we use 

 the name as an adjective of contempt. You re- 

 member the yellow suite in Marie Antoinette's 

 apartments at Versailles, and how the sun seems 

 to shine there on the dullest days. With a yel- 

 low or yellow-green fence, and such sparks of 

 golden light splashed against it, and over the 

 sward, as Persian roses, marigolds, nasturtiums, 

 coreopsis, zinnias, buttercups, rudbeckia, chrys- 

 anthemums and cannas, you will have a remedy 

 against the blues. If you merely rent the place, 

 and the landlord, being a man without a glim- 

 mering of taste or a prompting toward helpful- 

 ness, declines to stain the fence, leaving it cov- 



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