THE VOICE OF and stately, opening exhaustless stores for the 

 * imagination. This seems to be the ground- 

 work in nature's plan, and it should be the 

 main consideration in a plan for the garden. 

 It will determine the main features of the gar- 

 den, the direction and curves of its walks, the 

 position and outlines of all the clumps and 

 beds. 



It is difficult for me to imagine a garden 

 without flowers, yet I do accept the very revo- 

 lutionary statement of a recent writer on land- 

 scape gardening that "a garden may be abso- 

 lutely flowerless and yet be lovely," and that 

 "one may have a world of flowers and yet have 

 no garden in the true sense." I am very sure 

 that the loveliness which the flowers contrib- 

 ute to the garden is wonderfully enhanced 

 when we give them the place that this writer 

 gives them. She holds them to be "the gar- 

 den's jewels the bright gems with which its 

 design is embellished and 'picked out,' as a 

 jeweler would say." This idea requires that 

 the flowers be given a proper setting and 



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