THE WELL-CONSIDERED GARDEN 



The color arrangement proved not so good as 

 I had hoped. And, thanks to an ingenious guest, 

 we rearranged for next year in this fashion: One 

 tulip of each variety was cut and labelled with a 

 slip of paper. These cut tulips were then placed 

 in the open spaces of the rattan or cane seat of 

 a Chinese chair, the large flowers resting against 

 the back and sides of the chair. The round open- 

 ings in the woven cane exactly admitted the stiff 

 stems of the Darwins; the background of basket- 

 looking stuff was most becoming to the gay 

 flowers, and at our leisure, seated in comfort be- 

 fore our tulip galaxy, we arranged and rearranged 

 till the following plan evolved itself a plan of 

 which I append a rather feebly drawn chart a 

 plan, however, which I recommend with my whole 

 heart, a Darwinian theory less abstruse if not more 

 certain in its outcome than that of him in whose 

 honor these noble spring flowers are named. 



Another probably successful arrangement of 

 spring flowers suggests itself. Why should not 

 the tall lemon-colored blooms of Tulipa Vitellina 

 show back of rather close groupings of Scilla cam- 

 panulata's lavender bells, while the tender yellow 

 of Alyssum saxatile, var. sulphur eum, creates a 

 charming foreground ? The three flowers bloomed 



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