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garden is well furnished in the main with things 

 that will grow easily therein. Then, if he still 

 longs for that which Nature denies, it will be 

 time to experiment, and the whole place need 

 not suffer in appearance as a consequence. 



But there are a great many more kinds of 

 flowers than any garden can possibly hold, and 

 much that is lovely must be excluded. Indeed, 

 more will have to stay out than may come in, 

 for flower masses — that is, masses of one kind 

 of flower — are as essential to good effect as mass 

 generally. A border along a wall or walk may 

 be mixed — usually should be in fact, in order to 

 secure bloom through all the season — but of 

 each species composing the mixture anywhere 

 from three to a dozen or twenty specimens must 

 be planted, depending of course on the size and 

 habit of the individual. 



Just here let me call special attention to the 

 little planting diagram, which illustrates a prin- 

 ciple which should be carefully observed in 

 planting any mixed group or border. Where a 

 clump of one species or variety meets a clump 

 of another, a sharp line of demarkation must 

 never be allowed. Instead, an effect of each 

 tapering off into the other, secured by scattering 

 together the two, not regularly at all but as 

 they would be likely to mingle if self-sown in the 



