1 82 A WHITE-PAPER GARDEN 



barriers, fences, hedges, walls, anything that 

 will give the flowers the privacy, the reserve, 

 the protection which it is their mission to 

 teach a world in danger of forgetting the 

 lovely ideals that made the old days dear and 

 sweet. 



Here, in the sheltered spot, the plants and 

 shrubs must be massed to secure what, for 

 a better word, we may call volume of 

 odour, and there must be careful grouping, 

 that those coming into bloom about the same 

 time may blend their fragrance. Under that 

 lonicera, 1 which flowers before the leaf buds 

 start, and that Daphne, whose purple blossoms 

 open before the last long wreath of snow is 

 melted, white and purple violets must be 

 planted. Dig in fresh soil every second year, 

 divide and reset the violets, and leave the rest 

 to April. Under the lilacs lily-of-the-valley 

 may be left to its own devices, and under the 

 early, sweet Philadelphus, commonly called 

 mock-orange, small white and mottled pinks 

 will be glad to grow, and, on the sunny side, 

 clumps of yellow day-lilies. It would be a 

 pity to leave out the calycanthus, or strawberry 

 1 Fragrantissima. 



