GARDENS NEAR THE SEA 



was removed, and even then a few of the most nimble- 

 minded of the plants were in bloom. A fortnight 

 later they made as admirable a show as the plants that 

 gardeners had then set out to enliven city parks and 

 window boxes. They held their bloom fairly well until 

 the last of July, one reason for which was that they 

 were not allowed to go to seed. 



A practise now preferred by many is to use pansies 

 in monotone for border edgings and other purposes, 

 rather than to plant them of all and varied colors. 

 Beds of solid yellow pansies offset by others of royal 

 purple, winding in and out in conventional designs, 

 was the plan of decoration pursued one year in the 

 beautiful gardens of Monte Carlo. These gardens 

 are necessarily very formal, and under such constant 

 and expert supervision that no leaf or flower is ever 

 seen except in its full development of health and beauty. 

 The least sign of frailty in a plant is the cue for its 

 removal, that the place may be at once filled by one 

 more worthy to hold its own in the race for the sur- 

 vival of the fittest. 



Pansies planted in this way, however, are exclusively 

 for color effect. The pleasure of noticing the curious 

 piquancy and many expressions of their faces is greatly 

 modified. 



Fairest among annuals are the sweet peas. All 

 flower lovers should have them, although perhaps not 

 in the garden. Like the large flowering shrubs and 

 the stately trees, sweet peas are more appropriately 

 placed outside the borders of the garden. The reason 

 for their exclusion is that they demand a trellis on which 



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