1 78 A WHITE-PAPER GARDEN 



adapt themselves even to the green shades of 

 the greenest gardens. Pipsissiwa is one of 

 these ; a most charming plant, and the shin-leaf 

 is another. The wintergreen belong to the 

 same sisterhood. All of these belong to the 

 great family of the heaths, which have a habit 

 of clinging to the haunts and ways chosen by 

 their forebears, and, as, notably in the ex- 

 quisite trailing arbutus, claim the right of 

 selection due their high lineage. It may be 

 that occasional plants survive transplanting, 

 and make themselves at home amid new 

 environments. I do not know. Perhaps it is 

 just as well that man should stand abashed 

 before the stronger wills of some of these 

 delicate aristocrats. Perhaps it is better than 

 well that, instead of seeing them in humdrum 

 garden beds, cheek by jowl with jolly-faced 

 marigolds or flaunting tulips, " those flowers 

 who are true clients of the sunne," we must 

 seek them in their proper homes. Everything 

 loses something by being dissociated from its 

 natural surroundings : that is the lesson of 

 Emerson's "Each and All," which is the one 

 perfect answer to many questions. 



For August gardens there are two perfect 



