COLOR HARMONY 



White Swan will bloom just enough later not to be 

 right when the others are in their prime." 



Now, what is the good of our finest gardens if 

 they are to be thus misused and the owners' taste 

 misdirected in this fashion? We spend our money 

 for that which is not bread. 



I have a new profession to propose, a profession 

 of specialists: it should be called that of the gar- 

 den colorist. The office shall be distinct from 

 that of the landscape architect, distinct indeed 

 from those whose office it already is to prescribe 

 the plants for the garden. The garden colorist 

 shall be qualified to plant beautifully, according 

 to color, the best-planned gardens of our best 

 designers. It shall be his duty, first, to possess a 

 true color instinct; second, to have had much 

 experience in the growing of flowers, notably in 

 the growing of varieties in form and color; third, 

 so to make his planting plans that there shall be 

 successive pictures of loveliness melting into each 

 other with successive months; and last, he must 

 pay, if possible, a weekly visit to his gardens, for 

 no eye but his discerning one will see in them 

 the evil and the good. This profession will doubt- 

 less have its first recruits from the ranks of women; 

 at least, according to Mr. W. C. Egan, the color 

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