LITTLE GARDENS 



roses or honeysuckle, the arch rising to a height 

 of, say, nine feet. 



Still following the formalities, we can go 

 back to straight lines, and use them Indirectly 

 in a diamond pattern like this: 



Fig. 12. 



It would be gorgeous, Indeed, If you could 

 cover the whole of the diamond with flowers, 

 planting canna In the middle, then gladioli, then 

 dianthus, phlox, love-lies-bleeding, cockscomb 

 and other flowers of red or ruddy hue till the pro- 

 gression ended at the walk in a border of the 

 red alternanthera, or of ruddy coleus. The tri- 

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