SHADED GARDENS 223 
The deliberate planning of any scheme intended 
to make for shade should therefore not leave flow- 
ers out of complete consideration. No matter 
what the degree of shade, something there is that 
will find a particular spot congenial. 
To make the point of complete consideration 
more clear, it is not enough to grow roses, wistaria 
or honeysuckle over a pergola or arbor, with per- 
haps a_ hardy border outside where there is a sunny 
exposure. So far as the flowers are concerned 
these are sun propositions. The important thing 
to learn is that other flowers may flourish in the 
created shady places—flowers that will utilize 
waste spaces and sometimes prove no more trouble 
than grass or weeds; for something must grow in 
them, be sure of that. Call the pergola or arbor 
such if you will; but let it be secondarily a shaded 
garden. 
So, in a wider sense, with the whole place. If 
the garden proper be endowed with shade, necessar- 
ily or preferably, seize upon its shade advantages 
and develop them to the utmost. Or it may be 
that shade is upon one side of the garden, or the 
garden leads into shrubbery or thin woodland; then 
follow out the same idea. But do not overlook the 
lesser possibilities. Once a very pretty little shade 
garden not more than ten feet long and three feet 
wide was made along the stone foundation on the 
north side of the house. Though it had the sun 
only a little while in the morning, a couple of doz. 
en kinds of native plants flourished there. No 
