VI 



COLOR HARMONIES IN THE 

 SPRING GARDEN 



TN these words. Spring Flowers, there is very 

 -^ music. There is a delicious harmony in all of 

 Nature's colors, and particularly in the colors of 

 all native spring flowers, as they appear with 

 each other in their own environment. If any one 

 doubts what I say, let him look at such pictures 

 as are found in Flemwell's "Flowers of the Alpine 

 Valleys"; let him take up Mrs. AlUngham's 

 "Happy England"; or let him in May wander 

 in the nearest woodlot and see a lovely tapestry 

 of pale color woven of the pink of spring beauties, 

 the delicate lavenders of hepatica, and the faint 

 yellow of the dogtooth violet — thousands of tiny 

 blooms crowding each other for space, but all very 

 good. 



Perhaps, next to the snowdrop, crocus is the 

 earliest of the cultivated bulbs to bloom in our 

 wintry region. The matter of color mixtures here 

 comes to the fore. I admit this to be a question 



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