THROUGH THE YEAR IN A GARDEN 211 



trivial beside the successes that have come to 

 our patient cultivation of the plants we love. 

 Over there, we tell ourselves, our hardy bor- 

 der has come out too thinly, but we can make 

 amends even in the month to come, for by the 

 time October's planting is here our summer's 

 experience will have shown us wherein we may 

 make next year's garden even far more lovely, 

 perhaps, than this season's one has been. 



The Garden-beginners will wish to take note 

 of the color effects derived by planting — ^they 

 hardly knew what, when their inexperienced 

 hand first sowed the seed or set out seedlings. 

 Now as one looks about, there may appear too 

 much dark color, just there by the Hollyhocks 

 or the Cosmos may have come out all white 

 and pale Hlac, when its own reds would have 

 given the needed "spotting" for contrast. 

 Next year all this could be made right, for as 

 soon as it is possible, one should replant for 

 still better color effects than it was possible 

 until a summer in the garden had taught its 

 valuable lessons. 



Our great-grandmothers never let the month 

 of September slip by without being on the alert 

 for ripening seed-pods of annuals and peren- 



