CHAPTER XV 
SEASONAL EFFECTS WITH FLOWERS 
In the “Royall Ordering of Gardens,’ Bacon 
held that “there ought to be Gardens for all the 
Moneths in the Yeare: In which, severally, 
Things of Beautie may be then in Season.” 
Though the writer had princely magnitude in 
mind, this is a suggestion that might be carried 
out on a place of even moderate size without any 
appalling difficulties to overcome. All that is nec- 
essary is to pick out an even dozen spots on the 
home grounds and see that each has a dominant 
note characteristic of a certain month of the year. 
Geographical sequence is quite unimportant. Nor 
does it matter at all whether in each, or in any, 
case there is actually a garden. Thus a colony 
of snowdrops in a warm spot would not be too 
small to be called the February garden. It is 
no one’s business but your own how much play 
you allow your imagination. 
In a single garden, especially if it be of irregular 
design, it requires no great amount of ingenuity 
so to plant the plot that in every month of the 
year some one spot will have a glory unmistakably 
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