158 FLOWER GARDENING 
gresses as lantern views dissolve one into another. 
This requires an accurate knowledge not of all 
plants, but of enough to provide adequate working 
material. If perennials are used, and they are best, 
it is not a small undertaking to arrange a succession 
of plants that shall develop four distinct seasonal 
pictures, with no more bareness between times than 
san be avoided. It is worth trying, however. If 
failure comes, that will not rob the gardener of all 
his joy; some of it will have been the experience in 
the planning. 
A good compromise is to use a spot for only two 
pictures and these quite widely apart as to season. 
Thus the tall single cottage tulip might be planted 
behind hardy candytuft for a May effect and aut- 
umn monkshood for an October one. The candy- 
tuft is evergreen and the foliage of the monkshood 
is fine all summer—which illustrates the need in 
picture composition of knowing much about leaves, 
as well as blossoms, height, season, habit and so 
on. 
Foliage is of untold color, as well as form, value. 
Besides every conceivable shade of green, there are 
gray, yellows and whites—with red entering into 
the death notes of autumn and the life notes of 
spring. Twigs and stalks, too, are not all green; 
there are red, brown, yellow and gray ones. And 
the berries; they may be red, black, blue, yellow or 
white. 
Color supplied by blossoms, as has been said, is 
not indispensable. Its place in a garden picture is 
