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annual with a white flower running up the stem, a flower whose 

 lower lip is a bright reddish lavender. This is good growTi near 

 heliotrope, or a deep purple verbena such as Dolores, or the 

 species verbena, venosa. 



The list is endless; so are the pleasures. All I would say is — 

 do this imaginative gardening early; plan it on paper; make 

 notes; send in orders; and when May comes and the gardening 

 world is rushing wildly about, late for everji:hing, you will be 

 calmly setting out seedlings in their appointed places, working 

 with a trowel whose handle is intact, and wath no garden burdens 

 on the mind, enjoying in calmness the beauty of the spring. 



Except for our planting and what Miss Jekyll calls "regu- 

 lating" the garden, August should not be a too-busy month for 

 the gardener. Make it a time of enjoyment, for sitting much 

 among and near your flowers; for garden-dreaming — which 

 may sound sentimental, but really is not, for unless we dream 

 or imagine in our gardens, how shall they improve, how grow 

 each year more lovely? 



Now the stir of September's activity is almost upon us. The 

 digging, moving, replanting, replanning, so much better done 

 with most things in autumn than in spring, are about to come 

 upon us as a flood. I survey the calm brightness of the trees, 

 shrubs, the still green of the great peony leaves against a trim 

 high hedge beside me, and wish, so truly wish, that this time 

 of peace might longer endure, there is such sweetness in the air, 

 fragrance of leaves, of grass, of fruit. And to-morrow I expect 

 a great box of perennials, after that shrubs, then bulbs, and 

 general liveliness to come. 



Make a little garden, if you are a beginner, make a little 

 garden even if you have had experience, but work toward a 

 beautiful garden. How few people realize that in twenty square 

 feet something enchanting in the way of a garden may be pro- 



