VARIOUS GARDENS 



that art shade. Color is not the test determin- 

 ing whether a given species or variety can come 

 in, but, so far as it is a test at all, whether it 

 must stay out. Even if the color be satisfactory 

 and harmonious, yet if the plant is bad in its 

 habits, if it sprawls and is unsightly, if it is hog- 

 gish and overruns its neighbors, it cannot get in. 

 Color in this garden is a material factor in making 

 the picture, only in the same way as beauty of 

 foliage or of sky-line. Its importance may be 

 greater, but that is a matter of degree only. 

 Beauty of color and color harmony are essential, 

 because if the colors are bad, or if they jar, the 

 effect of the picture will be spoiled. Color com- 

 binations and color schemes have no other recog- 

 nition, however. 



"If this be treason, make the most of it." 



Now come four Eastern gardens. Two are upon 

 the Atlantic coast, one in the hills of Berkshire, 

 and the third in a suburb of the most finished of 

 all American suburbs, those of Philadelphia. 



On Nantucket Island has been created a garden 

 spot which, from its very pictures, so delights me 

 that to sometime see it, its lights and shadows, 

 its lovely watery distances, is a thing to expect 



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