144 A LITTLE GARDEN THE YEAR ROUND 



never did ; no sensible man ever will ! We can- 

 not forget Cowley's observation that ""God 

 the first garden made, and the first city Cain." 

 There is a delight incomparable in planning a 

 garden, planting it and caring for it. A de- 

 light that has taken a firm hold on Americans. 



We associate with the perfect garden, 

 whether it be a little garden or a large one, the 

 thought of those flowering shrubs that have 

 endeared themselves to us all and which have 

 won an enduring place in prose and poetry — 

 Lilacs, Syringas and the like. Our lawns are 

 no longer spotted with isolated shrub dots, but 

 we have come to emulate Nature, with her ar- 

 rangement of borders and of clearings. We 

 leave our lawn spaces free for such treatment 

 lends to the illusion of greater extent and we 

 make little skylines of our own by banking 

 shrubs on the lines of limit, tall growing ones 

 at the back and the shrubs of low growth in 

 front. 



In one little garden I have known the follow- 

 ing shrubs were growing, having been planted 

 there with succession of bloom in mind in their 

 selection. First came Forsythia which put 



