CHAPTER XIX 
FLOWERS FOR SHADED GARDENS 
Ever since gardens began the value of shade 
as a means of refreshment to man has been recog- 
nized, all manner of devices, from the natural to 
the sheer artificial, being employed to create it. 
Only in the failure to make the most of existing 
shade has there been a lamentable lack of recog- 
nition. 
There is a feeling that flowers and shade will 
not gohandinhand. The feeling is so strong that 
when flowers are found growing in garden 
shade it is usually through neglect rather than intel- 
ligent intent. 
Full sunshine and the open sky are essential to 
gardens only in a general way. Nature shows 
that. Many of her most beautiful gardens are par- 
tially shaded; not a few havea leafy screen be- 
tween them and the sun the livelong day. 
Shade, in some measure, is as grateful to numer- 
ous cultivated flowers as it isto man. Having had 
it naturally, they crave it in the garden—even 
though they are frequently good natured enough to 
live happily without it. 
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