186 A WHITE-PAPER GARDEN 



which are really beautiful, and there are self- 

 coloured coleus whose deep wine-crimson are 

 lovely. There could be no place in garden 

 of mine for stonecrops and alternanthias and 

 achyranthus, but there would be sure to be 

 places where a hedge of tall, bronzed cannas 

 would be both useful and imposing. The 

 green varieties, and those bearing flamboyant 

 red and yellow flowers, I should always class 

 with caladiums, and salvias and red geraniums, 

 but if I were careful to clip off the flower 

 stalks before they had a chance to show their 

 pitiable red petals I would be sure of a good 

 background for my dahlias and for the hardy 

 chrysanthemums in August only a bushy 

 promise. 



Can I have forgotten the morning glories 

 which are at prime when the dew-drenched 

 mornings begin to have a feeling of the coming 

 fall in the air ? Gay gossips in pink and blue 

 sunbonnets, eager to see, to show, they climb 

 the fences and laugh out their sunward greeting 

 in a way to banish sorrow from the saddest 

 heart. Theirs is the song of Pippa 



" God's in his Heaven 

 All's right in the world," 



