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central axis of the plan. Between the pergolas and the boundary hedge is a 

 long narrow flower bed where lilies and other flowers show their beauty to 

 the best advantage against a dark, background, and gleam at intervals between 

 the pergola posts. Beyond this pergola, where the paving is dappled with 

 shadow, a little garden of perennial flowers completes the vista, which is 

 terminated by an arbour. The possessor of such a little garden will find 

 scope enough within its boundaries to create a little paradise of flowers. But 

 it should always be borne in mind that the flowers are for the garden, not the 

 garden for the flowers. As in the house, the collector of furniture and 

 bric-a-brac comes to regard his home as a mere shelter for art treasures, so 

 the gardener is apt to consider the merits of the individual bloom before the 

 general effect of that little outdoor world in which it is but a unit. It is 

 not enough to grow the right sort of flowers, but it is necessary that they 

 should be arranged in right relation to each other, and considered in this 

 way, the materials of which the garden is composed are as the colours which 

 a painter uses to make a picture, and he who chooses a small canvas 

 may rival the efforts of a whole staff of gardeners employed without the 

 controlling influence of artistic skill in the grounds of the millionaire's 

 mansion. 



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