EPOCHS OF THE FORMAL GARDEN 



a corner near the entrance, where it surprises the in- 

 comer with its fragrance. Snapdragons and calendula 

 with many kinds of lilies conclude the list of flowers 

 in the garden's border which varies but slightly from 

 year to year. 



But those four center beds! The hours we have 

 spent over their development, the different plants we 

 have tried! To find anything which will bloom from 

 June to October without cessation is no easy matter; 

 and then the growth must be harmonious and the 

 color satisfactory. One bed is entirely to our taste, 

 the pink petunias. One year we have the "rosy dawn," 

 the next perhaps "Bar Harbor beauties"; but pink 

 petunias they are to me, and I am not offended if they 

 shade to darker hues or come imprinted with an oc- 

 casional star. Of course they require a firm hand over 

 them and are not permitted to encroach upon the 

 border or to fall — no matter how beguiling the spray 

 —upon the path. They present a solid mass of bloom 

 until the frost, and their delicious scent mounts to my 

 casement window in the dusk. 



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