THE GARDEN AND ITS ACCESSORIES 



writers of to-day, is awakening in us the 

 fact that we ought to make more use of 

 our gardens, apart from the pleasure 

 of gathering and caring for flowers ; and 

 we ought to make them look attractive by 

 the introduction of features that will give y 

 charm when there are no flowers in bloom, 

 as is always the case in this climate for 

 six or seven months every year. 



There is more to gardening than the 

 mere raising of flowers. If any person does 

 not think so, he had much better raise his 

 flowers as he would vegetables, in simple 

 beds by themselves, rather than make a 

 feeble attempt to dress his grounds with 

 fantastically arranged flower-beds. And 

 this same principle holds true in regard 

 to the employment of garden accessories. 

 Better to make no attempt to use them 

 at all than have them as we sometimes 

 see, a country place absolutely ruined 

 by spotting it up with hideous statues and 



