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EVENING AND MOONLIGHT PICTURES 



The finest time for enjoying a garden is at dusk, but our 

 twilight is so much shorter than the English that there is usually 

 nothing left of it after supper. Many Americans can hardly en- 

 joy their gardens except on Sundays\>r in the evenings. Therefore 

 our gardens ought to be charming by night as well as by day, and 

 they can easily be made so if we have a fair proportion of white and 

 fragrant flowers. The best classified lists of such flowers are given 

 in The Garden Magazine for July, 1909, pages 332 and 333, and 

 Country Life in America for May 1908, pages 42 to 45. I can only 

 add a few notes made in English gardens. 



Pale yellow flowers are visible by night and the snapdragons 

 of this colour have a spectral effect. The English are also very 

 fond of Lamarck's evening primrose (known to seedsmen as (Eno- 

 thera Lamarckiana} . 



It is also pleasant to see dimly through the darkness white 

 sheets of flowers carpeting the ground, and still pleasanter when a 

 rush of fragrance is borne to you by the night wind. Sweet 

 alyssum and sweet woodruff furnish these sensations. And at 

 Surbiton I saw a species of woodruff not described in Bailey's 

 Cyclopedia, viz., Asperula hirta, which was notable for having the 

 fragrance of almonds. 



WILD GARDEN AND WATER-SIDE PICTURES 



We have a very provincial idea of wild gardening in America. 

 Most people suppose that it means the cultivation of American 

 wild flowers. If you will examine William Robinson's delightful 

 book on wild gardening you will see that the main idea is to grow 

 the hardy plants of other countries so that they will look like wild 



