COLOUR IN MY GARDEN 



gardens wherein few flowers unfold to stir the cool tran- 

 quillity. In crowding our colour groups one against the 

 other we do not give ourselves opportunity to appreciate the 

 full beauty of any. "Be less lavish" is often good advice to 

 the gardener. 



Some years ago Sir Edwin Arnold, in comparing the flower 

 art of the West and of the East, wrote: "We crowd our 

 blooms and sprays together until they are like the faces of 

 people in the pit of a theatre — each lost in the press; a 

 mass, a medley, a tumultuary throng. The Japanese treat 

 each gracious beauty or splendour of the garden or the pool 

 as an individual to be honoured, studied, and separately 

 enjoyed. Each suggests and shall provide for his eyes a 

 special luxury of line, sufficing even with one branch, one 

 colour, one species, to glorify his apartment and make the 

 heart glad with the wonder and the grace of nature." 



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