LITTLE GARDENS 



flowers and shaded by branches at the spot 

 marked number 4 in the third plan, the trees be- 

 hind the focal point in the first. White is all 

 light, but it goes well with nearly anything. 

 Still, we have to remember that marble figures 

 are fragile and expensive, and a bronze nymph 

 or satyr that had taken on the green of age, 

 would best harmonize with its verdurous envi- 

 ronment. Whatever you do, don't get one of 

 those smirking, insipid statuettes of Flora, Ceres, 

 Hebe or Ganymede that you find on the lawn of 

 the parvenu — things that belong with the tatting 

 tidy, the lamp in petticoats and the plush album. 

 Nor must you buy a metal deer, elk, bear or lion 

 to lord it over the premises and, assumably, to 

 feed by night on the rhododendrons. We all 

 know that such animals do not prowl about town 

 yards. With the brassy freshness of the foundry 

 yet upon them, they have as much relation to 

 your posies as so many pounds of stoves. In fact, 

 you are not pledged to use statuary. There are 

 urns, sun-dials, jardinieres and fountains. You 

 may attach a fountain spray to your hose and 

 turn on the water in the evening, and the spar- 

 kling current, leaping from an ambush of cannas 



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