LITTLE GARDENS 



places in that the flowers they grow are so large, 

 so gorgeous and so late. Not that this Invari- 

 ably applies, for some plants prefer the cold, and 

 I have never seen finer sedums than are grown in 

 the public gardens of Halifax, nor does the 

 camomile put out bigger blossoms than on the 

 rocky shores of New Brunswick. 



Maybe you would prefer to plant for color, 

 rather than for season, for in that you have the 

 joy of all seasons. When I am rich and have ten 

 acres I shall have color beds in my garden, so 

 that I may enjoy a blaze of yellow now, a rous- 

 ing, martial red at another time, and bring down 

 the sky upon my kingdom, or simulate the snows 

 in fragrant white. I will have spaces for daffo- 

 dils, yellow iris, cowslip, yellow lilies, chrysan- 

 themums, goldenrod, cloth-of-gold and Persian 

 roses, calceolaria, coreopsis, coneflower, colum- 

 bine, clnquefoll, canna, helipterum, marigold, 

 nasturtium, escholzia, zinnia, gaillardia, golden- 

 tuft, St. Johnswort, black-eyed Susans, barberry, 

 honeysuckle, currant goldenbell, kerria Japonica, 

 dahlia, yellow water-lily, buttercup, elecampane, 

 and the big, honest sunflower — we raised one 

 last summer that was eighteen inches across the 

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