THE WELL-CONSIDERED GARDEN 



the dark water hidden by mats of uninteresting 

 lily-pads, as is too often the case when one has a 

 fancy for aquatics. 



Taking now our gardens in non-geographical 

 order, but in their general groups as Eastern, 

 Western, and Middle Western, we will look first 

 at the two in the Middle West. This, happily, we 

 may do through the medium of the pens of the 

 gardens' owners. The first description is of an 

 Ohio garden at Gates Mills, not far from Cleve- 

 land; the second a lawyer's garden in the lively 

 and agreeable city of Grand Rapids, Michigan. 

 The descriptions follow as given me, even to the 

 humorous thrust in the line which concludes the 

 second. 



"My garden is like my house; perhaps that is 

 what all gardens should be. But it has pleased 

 me to play that the old lady, with New England 

 traditions, who built the little cottage seventy 

 years ago, made a garden to go with it, which has 

 gone on seeding itself and tangling all sorts of 

 things up together. 



"There is an uneven stone walk leading from 

 the gate to the front door, and before the deed 

 of the place was in my possession I had planted 

 on either side of it a border which blooms from 



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