THE WELL-CONSIDERED GARDEN 



rather than the cooler colors, there was a planting 

 of flaming orange zinnias, spiral mignonette, and 

 (this one of nature's happy accidents) the red 

 bronze seed-pods of nigella in the foreground. 



A phlox garden, white and pink, lavender and 

 rose-color, where one forgets the phlox, save as it 

 gives a needed solidity of form and hue, such is 

 Mrs. King's garden. The feeling of form is en- 

 hanced by an enclosing hedge, almost as broad as 

 high and as smooth and solid as a wall. Behind 

 it is the real garden background — big shrubs on 

 one side and on the other, and, at the far end of the 

 garden, a grape-covered trellis with arched gate- 

 ways, which in June are a glory of climbing roses. 

 Through one of these arches is the service-yard, 

 while through the other up a few steps, on a higher 

 level, are the picking-garden and trial-garden, made 

 gay with borders of annuals. Here, at the end of 

 the path which forms a continuous vista from the 

 loggia, is a quaint garden-house, backed by silver 

 poplars, and presided over by fanciful wooden 

 birds which give it quite a foreign air. Opposite 

 the entrance to the service-yard a brick-paved 

 circle serves as a transition from garden to lawn. 

 Benches here under two apple-trees make a shady 

 retreat from the glare of an August sun. 

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