GARDENS OF MANY KINDS 15 
let may choose either the flower or the color for 
theirs. Daisy is perhaps not less fortunate in the 
variety of “day’s eye” flowers that extend over 
the entire season. And there is Lily, with glorious 
opportunities from May to September. If there 
be but contentment with one or two kinds of flow- 
ers, several other feminine names, and perhaps as 
many masculine ones, may be coupled with gardens. 
Is it too small a thing to bestow the name of Mary’s 
garden on a generous planting of “blue-eyed 
Mary” and “sweet Mary,” or Susan’s garden on 
a grouping of the two flowers known as “‘black-eyed 
Susan”? Surely there would be something in them 
to Mary or Susan that an acre of roses would 
lack—even though there were not a precise match- 
ing of eyes. 
Color gardens are more dreamed of than re- 
alized. Yet they offer a most fascinating field 
that would not seem hedged in with trials and 
tribulations if the first thing to remember were 
not usually overlooked. It is this: there is no 
statute on the books requiring a pink garden, for 
example, to be all pink. How soon the eye would 
tire were there not the green of the leaves; and 
if the color why not a touch of white? The only 
rule is to have the name color dominant, and no 
more so than you fancy. White always is a re- 
freshment and a bit of yellow warms up a blue 
garden. A red garden ought not to be too red, as 
this is a hot color in summer; use winter berries and 
evergreen foliage in generous measure, By skill- 
