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associated with it. Or, where space and time at 
one’s disposal are no barrier, a garden of the year 
could easily be created in the form of a wheel. 
The hub should be a good-sized pool, or bird bath, 
and from the path around it should radiate as 
many paths as there are months. A rim could 
be added if precise formality were desired, but 
very often spokes of unequal length would be bet- 
ter—and these need not always, or ever, be 
straight. 
Such a garden would develop into a perfectly 
permissible, but rather foolish, fad if it were laid 
out with the idea that no path was to be a pleasant 
walk save in the month to which it is dedicated. 
The point is not that at all; it is simply that the 
April path shall savor so strongly of April as to 
make it that month’s particular part of the gar- 
den. 
The January path ought to be the way of ap- 
proach. The chief reason is this: evergreens must 
be the seasonal note and by the use of these a 
permanently attractive ‘entrance may be made. 
Moreover, their green will always be the best of 
frames for the color that the July path, directly 
opposite, will bring into the vista. The ever- 
greens will have to spread into the February path 
on one side and the December path on the other. 
So long as it ceases to be dominant, the note may 
extend to any or all of the other paths. 
It would be possible in a fairly cold climate, say 
southern New England, to have at least one dis- 
