ACCUMULATING A GARDEN 77 
and much else that concerns the pictorjal side of 
gardening. And of many other things learned, or 
then well along in the learning, not the smallest 
was contentment with a modest beginning and with 
making haste slowly. 
The second year unlearning began; as with gath- 
ering libraries, that is always incidental to the 
early stages of making a garden. One thing un- 
learned was the sowing of the seed of biennials 
and perennials on the first day of August—a rule 
again and again drummed into the ear of, the 
would-be flower gardener. Only a few of the 
perennials bloomed and of the biennials not a 
Canterbury bell or a hollyhock and no more than 
one foxglove; the Iceland poppies alone were up 
to scratch. From that time on some one has 
planted biennial and perennial seed under glass 
in early May, if he counted upon getting bloom 
the following year. 
To return to spring from this summer digres- 
sion, the second April saw a long, and really se- 
rious, border under way. It was L-shaped and 
ran back from the street along the east side of 
the east lawn and then turned to border the south 
side—thus giving this part of the yard a back- 
ground. Hybrid perpetual roses were planted 
nearly up to the turn, where a break was made 
with some larger Madame Plantier bushes; thence 
the border was continued as a hardy herbaceous 
one. What with the little nursery, the numerous 
seedlings and more generosity on the part of neigh- 
