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hollow. If she has a spire or two of cardinal 

 flowers, she gives it into the care of a grey- 

 bouldered brook, which nourishes some special 

 mosses and tall sedges to give it companion- 

 ship, or coaxes a hemlock-tree to spread its 

 drooping boughs near by. To find one of 

 these jewels in its appointed setting is always 

 an event of moment, and introduces one to a 

 most beautiful planting secret. For everyday 

 work, however, she trusts to the effect invari- 

 ably produced by the flowering together of 

 many plants of the same species, the whites of 

 a daisied hillside ; the purple-rose of a heathery 

 moor, the yellows of a marshland of golden- 

 rods and tiny sunflowers. These are the open 

 pages on which can be read at a glance what 

 she wishes us to do if we are willing to work 

 with her. So planted one flower protects 

 another, thus winning the cross fertilisation 

 essential to the transmission of many species, 

 and so arranged there is always possible the 

 full gratification of colour - sense which no 

 solitary flower can ever give. 



The second lesson is that of succession. 

 What is the good if your garden is aglow at 

 opentyde with all the tulips that ever came 



