GARDEN ORNAMENTS 



CHAPTER I 



THE GARDEN PATH AND BORDER 



''All the world's a garden and we are garden 

 lovers in it." This is not a new theme, for it has 

 been in existence ever since the planting of the 

 early flower plots, those that were in evidence in 

 our grand-dames' time. There is a distinct at- 

 mosphere connected with those simple one-path 

 gardens that is most delightful. It lies not only 

 in the gravel paths and the stiff, box-borders, but 

 in the fragrant old-fashioned flowers that were 

 grown promiscuously inside the trim line of box. 

 Perchance some dainty line of cinnamon pinks 

 whose delicate blossoms when we find them in the 

 twentieth-century gardens, carry us back vividly 

 to the Colonial days when they so often formed a 

 part of the garden scheme. 



Great changes have taken place in the evolution 

 of the posy beds, for, with the passage of time, they 



