ELIZABETH LEONARD STRANG 



garden. Not a single harsh or disturbing color 

 note can be found. Only the clearest of yellows, 

 the softest of pink and rose shades, the quietest 

 of lavender, blue, and purple, and harmonizing 

 whites are used in this elusive pattern of color. 

 Succession of bloom, color harmony, and arrange- 

 ment are subtly interwoven. Thus analyzed the 

 garden illustrates the difficulties and the pleasures 

 of its designing. It makes clear the reason for 

 many failures, the source of its many delights. 



It is as easy to enumerate the flowers planted 

 in a garden as it is hard to describe the elusive 

 effects that are attained. It is as simple to 

 explain the underlying principles of the garden's 

 composition as it is difficult to analyze its charm. 

 A flower garden is a transitory evanescent thing. 

 Without constant, patient, and intelligent care the 

 whole charm of a garden like this one, dependent 

 on so many interrelated details, is lost in a year's 

 time. This garden has the frequent supervision of 

 the designer. This means not only that she can 

 see that it is kept up to the color scheme and 

 arrangement as she divined it, that she can foretell 

 and forewarn lapses in bloom, winter failures, and 

 seasonal mishaps, but she can arrange and com- 

 plete, substitute and devise new color effects in 



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