COLOR IN THE LITTLE GARDEN 71 



marigolds, tagetes, and, later, dahlias, calendulas, the whole 

 family of the small stmflowers, also heleninms, both low and tall- 

 growing. A Garden of the Smi is easily created. Here, too, white 

 and cream-colored bloom would immensely help the general 

 effect. 



Artemisia lacUJlora, with its pearl-like florets, would be at its 

 best among yellow flowers. White phloxes also, such as Tapis 

 Blanc, Von Lassberg, and Frau Antoine Buchner. As already 

 suggested, my observation is that beginners in gardening choose 

 yellow flowers. It does not matter what they choose; it does mat- 

 ter that they should begin. Annual flowers, too, are likely to form 

 part of this horticultiu-al introduction. The inexperienced gar- 

 dener is usually in a hurry, and annuals give quick reward for 

 labor. 



The rose-pink garden is easy : from fruit-blossoms and tulips of 

 May, through June roses, to the phloxes and mallows of August, 

 all supplemented by annuals of entrancing tones of rose, pink 

 sweet WUliams, — biennials, of course, these, — English daisies, 

 godetias, clarkias, silenes, annual phloxes, verbenas — a lovely 

 array. How much lovelier all the expanse of color, if groups of 

 lavender ageratiun appear occasionally amid the rose-colored 

 blooms. 



For a formal arrangement of color, where pale yellow, lav- 

 ender, and pale pink were used, I give the following, which was 

 carried out not long since under my direction. The garden 

 lies on a flat terrace shaped like an open fan; the terrace sur- 

 rounds a bay of the house, and this terrace is outlined by low 

 clipped hedges of Thunberg's barberry, with little eight-inch 

 hedges of the same around each bed. Two grass walks radiate 

 from two glass doors of the bay, dividing three long, curving beds 

 at the outside of the fan, as well as smaller beds nearer the house. 

 The planting of the three outer beds was this, in rectangular lines 



