COLOR ARRANGEMENTS OF FLOWERS 



no great gardens can, although the latter 

 may be more complete with all that nature 

 and art combined are able to accomplish. 

 Every lover of flowers has her own ideas 

 upon the subject of gardening. My ideal 

 garden is one a little distance from the house, 

 and so surrounded by trees and enclosed by 

 hedges that the windows of the house cannot 

 look down upon it; — a lovely out-of-doors 

 room, as it were, neat and orderly like the 

 rooms of the house, where every plant is 

 brought to its highest development and 

 nature trained by man gives constant and 

 luxuriant bloom, where the green setting of 

 trees, hedges, box-edging and fine turf, and 

 the colors blending without a jarring note, 

 fill one with a sense of delight and thanks- 

 giving for the beauty of the spot; a place 

 where one may walk or talk, read or work, 

 quite unobserved, with the sunshine all 

 around, yet seated in cool shade, and with 

 the murmuring of falling water and the 

 exquisite notes of the song sparrow, or the 



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