LITTLE GARDENS 



In the sun, we are to remember that we seldom 

 see them in full light, and that the shadows of 

 leaves, tree trunks and walls do much to tone 

 down what else would be too shrill. Then, it is 

 more severe upon us to turn a single ray of sharp 

 red or yellow upon the optic nerve than to flood 

 it with the same color. We resent little effects ; 

 we want broad spaces and masses; hence, it is not 

 well to have a quantity of unrelated tints in your 

 garden. A solid bank of marigolds, azaleas, or 

 what not, is a comfort in its mere aspect; we bask 

 in it, and seem to appropriate from its color some 

 delicate material for the building of the spirit, 

 even as physicians have discovered varying path- 

 ological values in reds, blues, greens, yellows, 

 browns, grays and blacks — excitants and seda- 

 tives. 



In flowers we have every primary and sec- 

 ondary color, and many shades of each. May I 

 be pardoned if I revert briefly to first principles. 

 Light can be broken into three primary hues : 

 red, yellow and blue. Mix any two of these and 

 you have a secondary. 



Where red overlaps yellow, it makes orange ; 

 where it overlaps blue, it makes purple; where 

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