VARIOUS GARDENS 



care for without a regular gardener and with only 

 occasional hired help. 



"Because of the first of these conditions, the 

 garden is always on parade. It must, therefore, 

 be always sightly throughout its entire extent. 

 So it must be treated as a whole; for pleasing 

 beds, or groups of flowers, without regard to the 

 condition at all times of the rest of the garden, 

 will not produce a result always beautiful in its 

 entirety. That effect will be the result not of the 

 flowers alone, but of flowers, plants, and foliage, 

 so massed and grouped as always, throughout the 

 season's changes, to convey to the eye a pleasing 

 impression of the garden as a whole. This involves 

 consideration of the flowers, foliage, and habit of 

 growth of each of the plants used, and of the 

 time of its growth, its bloom, its decline and 

 decay. It requires the proper grouping of all 

 that the garden contains, so as to cover the 

 ground, to hide unsightly plants in their decline, 

 to present always a pleasing sky-line, and to se- 

 cure harmony of color in foliage as well as in 

 flowers. This is to treat the garden as a picture; 

 and these things are the main factors in its com- 

 position. To make the picture effective in its 

 place there must be a relatively large quantity of 



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