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"7. I am not sure I shall ever manage the garden-house, as 

 indicated on the plan. I'm not sure I should like it; at least it 

 will be the last thing, and just now it is a lovely place for color; 

 one's eyes rest on that spot as one starts down the little steps 

 into the garden. 



" 8. Color for pots, especially for the terrace as indicated on 

 the plans. We have hydrangeas this year which are doing very 

 well, only I don't like hydrangeas; also Rosy Morn petunias, 

 which are charming. 



" 9. Color to climb the service gate. This is such a shady spot 

 that I have not been able to arrange it — even rambler roses 

 don't do well. 



" Our soil is very sandy, and I sometimes think that I ought to 

 make the gardens all over, as we have only one and a half feet of 

 loam, I suppose, in most places. I want flowers mostly for spring 

 and fall, with some, however, for summer. I like just these 

 colors, violet, pale blue and cool rose with white. I do not like 

 any red or yellow, except the spring yellow, and possibly the 

 orange for fall in calendulas, if necessary, but I should rather 

 have the other colors. As to how much I wish in actual gay color 

 — especially the little gardens by the west study wall; one of 

 the problems is the areas. I have wondered if one could have 

 little pots around them, or a table made to fit in, for pots to stand 

 on, or should one just accept them as utilitarian necessities, the 

 price I am more than glad to pay, to be able to walk into my 

 hospitable front door without a step.'' 



"These things, by my observation of gardens these last two 

 years, I have learned I do not like: — 



"Yellow or red (except in spring); mixed colors in the same 

 flower, double flowers as a rule, the same kind of flowers all over 

 the garden. For instance, I should like the two west-side study 

 gardens to be alike and to be balanced. I have thought of them 

 perhaps as a succession of blue and white; but then I should like 



