THE WELL-CONSIDERED GARDEN 



brighter, so that the small convenience should be 

 more easily discernible on the grass before a border, 

 or between the beds of a garden. I would suggest 

 a bright blue or a yellow. Aside from this, the 

 little arrangement is very perfect for its purpose. 

 Soft, thick, and light, it is the faithful compan- 

 ion for all seasons when planting, transplanting, or 

 cultivating is the order of the day. 



For carrying flowers, if baskets happen to be 

 less conveniently at hand than usual, or where 

 it might prove a burden to the flower-recipient 

 to have to return baskets, I often cut double 

 sheets of heavy wrapping-paper into a roughly 

 graceful shape of some picturesque arching basket 

 which is in my memory, leaving two strips at top 

 for handle. These strips are fastened together 

 by pins at their ends, the sides of the papers are 

 joined in the same manner, and the whole pressed 

 gently open from within, when a practical and 

 satisfactory receptacle is created for holding and 

 keeping cool the stems. 



Frosts, with us, are due in early September. 

 Heliotropes are apt to blacken then, Japanese 

 anemones to receive that baptism of cold from 

 which they do not recover. To offset such di- 

 minishings of the garden's color, I keep hidden 



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