182 COME INTO THE GARDEN 



working up to the vegetation, from the bare 

 ground, assures. 



So the garden and house are designed as a 

 unit, and all that enters into this design is con- 

 sidered and worked out before the plants are 

 thought of. After all this is done, after the 

 house and the garden are carefully and thor- 

 oughly built, then the place as a whole stands 

 ready for furnishing, the indoors with its kind, 

 the outdoors with its. Large pieces of furniture 

 in the house, then the smaller, and then the 

 purely decorative material; trees out of doors, 

 next shrubs — and finally the flowers. Thus we 

 come to them fully prepared to place and group 

 them worthily, and to treat them as they deserve 

 to be treated. 



The times when they are so dealt with are all 

 too few, unintentional though our sins of omis- 

 sion are; as a consequence, the effect of the 

 flowers which we do grow is not one-hundredth 

 what it might be. For we should have not only 

 the beauty of the flowers themselves to delight 

 us, but the beauty of the garden design — the 

 garden scheme as a whole, picked out and 

 quickened by them. They are, indeed, the 

 garden craftsman's colorful gems, his inlays of 

 rich enamel, his mosaic chips, to be incorpo- 

 rated into his design as these jewels and bits of 



