The Happy Garden 



available, a dark bank, or a mass of trees as dark 

 as possible, and, if wistaria can be got to cling 

 about and droop its pale mauve tresses through 

 the yellow, so much the better. 



In my garden yellow laburnum hangs out into 

 the road like a banner, and to ignorant eyes seems 

 to mock my stern denunciation of yellow. 



Primroses, of course, no one could or would 

 denounce. There is a carpet of them when snow- 

 drops pass under the birch avenue. 



But that there may be no misunderstanding, 

 let me say at once, that pale yellow and deep 

 orange have no offence in them, and, therefore, I 

 have pale asphodeline lutea with its pretty light 

 grey foliage and handsome pods : yellow monks- 

 hood, creamy iris, yellow roses, alstrcemerias and 

 other orange lilies, tree lupins and columbine. 



I think that list exhausts the yellow flowers that 

 are bearable. Many of them are things of joy, and 

 are on the best of terms with all the other flowers. 



From here, Jane, you have the best view of the 

 house, because the most fairy-like and full of 

 enchantment. You see the whole length of it and 

 the odd shape that it has come by in its growth : 

 all corners and gables and angles ; the offices 

 reaching out towards the west, and the house proper 

 towards the south. All right-minded houses, like 



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