154 A WHITE-PAPER GARDEN 



heat broods over the world no one has energy 

 for transplanting and coaxing, and all one is 

 able for is a wholesale sprinkling at evening. 

 Even the weeds cease to be the disgrace they 

 were in June, and too often what promised to 

 be a well-ordered parterre becomes a tangle 

 of rough grasses or wretched little cheese 

 mallows, or still more wretched purslane. The 

 hardy plants do more than all the patent 

 weeders or cultivators ever invented to solve 

 the problem of order and neatness. To be 

 carefully planted in good soil, deeply spaded, 

 and finely powdered in the fall ; to be covered 

 in by a mulching of litter during the winter, 

 and to have some bone-meal dug about their 

 roots in the spring these are the few and 

 paltry attentions asked by the good biennials 

 and perennials, and surely these are not ex- 

 travagant requirements ! 



In even the limited space afforded by an 

 ordinary suburban or village garden plot, a 

 succession of white bloom may be ensured by 

 planting from this list which I have treasured 

 for ever so long in my desk-garden 



Snowdrops, crocus, hyacinths, narcissi, 

 violets, Star of Bethlehem, tulips, candy- 



