favor for the nasturtiums, as they grew tall and 

 given to yellow leaves about the feet. 



From the porch to the road the aforesaid holly- 

 hocks were permitted to fulfill their prim mission by 

 being placed in a straight row next to the walk. At 

 their backs, adjoining the lawn, we placed alternate 

 clijmps of gift iris and hardy phlox, with a gen- 

 erous sowing of opium poppies to insure midsummer 

 gayety. Then we removed the few lonesome and 

 purposeless shrubs dotted about the lawn to the other 

 boundary of our grass plot, and by leaving an un- 

 broken lawn we greatly improved the appearance of 

 our frontage. To surround these shrubs and to 

 keep them from feeling hurt, we made a long irreg- 

 ular bed, which ran between an apple and a cherry 

 tree, holding a very indiscriminate lot of plants and 

 a perfect kaleidoscope of color; we had not grown 

 fastidious then and we wanted flomers, no matter 

 whether they were intended for bedfellows or not. 



Here California poppies, marigolds and calliopsis 

 made a blaze of gold; cornflowers, larkspurs and 

 ageratum equaled the sky in blueness; and Phlox 

 Drummondi of every shade of salmon pink, white and 

 red, were rivaled by the motley colors of the varie- 

 gated pansy border. It was beautiful chaos, and 



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