34 A WHITE-PAPER GARDEN 



childhood that threw them away after the 

 moment's possession which sufficed even for 

 things so beautiful and so precious. Have I 

 not given good and sufficient reasons why the 

 Alleghany vines cannot be left out ? Is there 

 not a memory like this behind the name of 

 every flower that grows, and when the mid- 

 night has turned toward morning, and the 

 rain is falling, does not the homesick heart 

 cry out for the loved ones at home ? 



Down goes the list and out comes the foot- 

 rule. When I was laying out my box borders 

 I forgot to put in a privet hedge. There is 

 nothing prettier than the sturdy privet, which 

 carries its clean, dark leaves well into the 

 winter and, after its pearly flowers in mid 

 summer, jets itself over with shining black 

 berries. I must plant privet across the lower 

 end of my paper or stay shall I not have a 

 cherry-tree at either corner, which will grow 

 bigger and bonnier as the years go by, and 

 between them a strong netting for sweetpeas 

 and colza, and moon vine and morning glory ? 

 Or would it not be better to build in a lat- 

 tice for sweetbriar and eglantine, and prairie 

 queen and Baltimore belles, and for clematis, 



