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at the side of the front door in the old-fashioned 
way; with a rambler on a porch, arch or gateway; 
with a woodbine on a juniper or a wistaria on a 
pine; with a nearly submerged boulder and a patch 
of Phlox subulata and so on to the end of a chapter, 
limited in length only by failure to see glorious 
opportunities. 
And there are innumerable lesser opportunities. 
A little patch of the old Campanula rapunculoides 
or Sedum spectabile close against the gray stones of 
the foundation of a house makes a picture as 
charming in its way as many of the more pretentious 
ones. Again, a small colony of foam flower (Tia- 
rella cordifolia), or bloodroot, or white violet, in 
the shade of a shrub, with brown twigs above it 
and brown earth around, is no less delectable. 
Do not despise the brown things—even some scat- 
tered leaves of the garden’s winter blanket. Nor 
fail to use the least of material; three purple crocus 
blooms and their grass-like foliage, and only the * 
soil for a background, will make a miniature at any 
rate. 
So far the pictures spoken of have been seasonal 
—in evidence at this or that time of year and then 
gone until another twelve months shall have come 
around. These present the minimum of difficulty 
and are therefore the best for the beginner. But a 
great deal of the pleasure of making garden pictures 
lies in the much more complicated task of arranging 
a succession of them in a single spot, nature to seem 
to evolve one from the other as the season pro- 
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