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How to Make a Flower Garden 



our story- writers, one should be somewhat cautious about statuary. Just 

 imagine the protest of a nude figure in zero weather ! 



Do not attempt to utiHse discarded material or utensils which one would 

 instantly associate with other uses — such as beer-bottles for the edging 

 of beds, old kettles on tripods painted red and with imaginary fires of stone 

 under them, and old earth-filled stoves with geraniums blazing out of the 

 cover-holes, love-in-the-mist puffing out of the smoke flue, and a front 

 draft exhaling "infant's breath." 



A bed of dwarf flowering cannas as seen at the Pan-American Exposit 



Above all, avoid the curious and the grotesque unless you are ready 

 frankly to accept the idea that the garden is to be a museum — a place for 

 the display of freaks. When you do this, do not inflict it upon all your 

 friends all the time. A very retired nook behind a very high hedge would be 

 anappropriateplacefor Alexander Pope's "Imagery in Evergreen Subjects," 

 with which a "virtuoso gardener" would "ornament villas and gardens" 

 to distinguish them from the "barbarous countries of gross nature." Fancy 

 " Adam and Eve in yew, Adam a little shattered by the fall of the Tree of 

 Knowledge in the great storm, Eve and the Serpent very flourishing";, 



