CHAPTER III 
LAYING OUT THE FLOWER GARDEN 
THE initial step toward laying out a flower gar- 
den is to make up your mind not as to the kind 
that you want but the kind that you ought to have. 
Although this sounds heart-breaking, it is not so 
bad after all; it is only a matter of adjusting the 
mental attitude. 
Of course, the kind of garden that you ought to 
have is the one that is best in the circumstances. 
In the first place, as has already been said, it should 
bear a relationship to the house. This does not 
mean that a house wholly impossible, or only half- 
way bad, ought to have those qualities duplicated 
in the garden; nothing could be more senseless 
than that. It does mean that there should be a 
certain harmony, if not actual correspondence, of 
character. ‘True, there might easily be the sort 
of planning that would so isolate the garden as to 
shut it out completely from any picture of the 
house. This would satisfy the passerby, and your 
neighbor; but how about you? Do you not want 
to feel that there is a certain homogeneity of at- 
mosphere? Well, you ought to if you do not. If 
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