added to the compost heap if they are free 

 from defect ; if not they go on the bonfire, lest 

 blight or pest be spread therefrom, mayhap. 



The colour effect of the myriad of white or 

 pale gold or deep pink lilies, with the infinite 

 blues of the larkspur, and the lilacs of the 

 foxglove bells, is a thing beyond compare. 

 After these go to the Place prepared who 

 can doubt it? for good and faithful plants 

 who have done their duty lovingly and faith- 

 fully here, tall phlox, in white and pink colour- 

 ings, which have been growing unobserved 

 among the lily stalks, come into eight weeks 

 of loveliness. Once, when for a time the pink 

 lilies were removed to another part of the 

 garden, African marigolds took the place of 

 the phlox, and Shasta daisies made a border, 

 so that the white of the late-flowering lilies 

 and the gold bands of the auratums were 

 repeated a thousand -fold. In some years 

 asters are bedded with the lilies, purple and 

 white asters. Never anything with a red 

 flower enters the garden ; never anything 

 that suggests a greenhouse, or a fear of early 

 frost. At the end of the wall there are four 

 or five hemlocks, and three white birches. 



