70 THE LITTLE GARDEN 



one could find for mixed borders flanking a paved walk — 

 borders in which blues and pale violets are the predominating 

 hues. 



It may be that, where the owner of the little garden desires 

 his beds or little borders to be of one general color, he will select 

 from such a list as this; but he will find elsewhere many to add. 

 I have lately read of a garden effect which strongly took my 

 fancy. This is a garden in England, one of several upon the same 

 estate, a garden framed by dark trees, entered from a rather 

 sombre space; a garden all of whose flowers are yellow, and whose 

 charming name is the Garden of the Sun. Beyond this garden, 

 again enclosed in tall dark hedges, appears a further one, the Gar- 

 den of the Moon, in which, as one may suppose, the flowers are 

 white, though faint blues might well be admitted to such a place. 

 The second garden is said to be less successful than the first; 

 but it may be that the Garden of the Moon should be visited 

 only at that hour at which the traveler in Scotland is charged to 

 see fair Melrose aright. 



Is it fancy, or am I right in thinking that most of the first ex- 

 periences with flowers are experiences with yeUow ones? Not so 

 with my own. I remember as if it were yesterday buying, some 

 twenty years ago, a package of seed of Delphinium sinensis, 

 sowing it on virgin soil, and achieving such flowers, and plants of 

 such a height, that the picture of these excited the envy of a great 

 English authority, who begged for seed. At that moment, al- 

 though I did not know it, my permanent preoccupation was set- 

 tled. Blue flowers were my beginning. For yellow flowers what a 

 field there is, beginning in earliest spring with the crocus, and 

 ending with some such lovely thing as RudhecMa triloba, with 

 gorgeous yeUow pansies, Iceland poppies, trollius, for May; col- 

 imibines for Jime; gaiUardias, lemon lilies, Anthemis tinctona, for 

 July, when all the yellow spring-sown annuals begin — zinnias. 



