22 THE LITTLE GARDEN 



the south study garden to be difiFerent from them, with different 

 flowers. I have thought another rose-bush to balance the white 

 one would be pretty, close to the terrace. How I should like to 

 see adorable borders along the brick- walk garden, as I have no 

 grass at all to edge the walk. Just now sweet alyssum, white, is 

 pretty. Mignonette is coming on — pansies and zinnias for the 

 fall. I do not know, however, whether I like or do not like the 

 same border all along, or even on both sides. 



"For the vegetable garden, the walks bordered by parsley, 

 sweet lavender, fennel, thyme (saffron proved not so pretty), 

 all were enchanting to look upon and useful iar fines herbes the 

 winter following. The gooseberries and currants gave the right 

 notes of accent in all the comers. Then there grew peppers, 

 radishes, and lettuce with the real crop, the yellow and red 

 tomatoes, graceful and fruitful on their several high green iron 

 poles. It really was a delightful little vegetable garden, in per- 

 fect keeping with everything else about, and so many good things 

 to eat from that small space." 



Love of gardens shines out in such sentences as these. How 

 discriminating the gardener who writes thus clearly and affec- 

 tionately of her planting, and of the pictures existing, or to be 

 made! 



COLOR GROUPINGS OP TULIPS i 



Planting Pi/AN tor a Sdc-Foot Bed 



Instead of the usual flat bands, try planting tulips in irregular bands of color, 

 with a graduation from the outside; and between the bulbs fill in with a carefully 

 selected ground cover. 



FoUB SlTQGESTED COMBINATIONS OF EaRLT TuIJPS 



Purple and Yellow. — 1. Wouvennan, dark purple: purple pansies between 

 the bulbs. 2. Globe de Rigaud, dark violet, feathered purple and white: lavender 



' These notes were to accompany planting-plans, not reproduced here. They 

 wUI be useful without the plans. 



