VARIOUS GARDENS 



real and living. It seems painted; it is too good 

 to be true, this artist's arrangement of colors 

 within a long pergola built of saplings with the bark 

 still upon them. "I made it all myself," delight- 

 edly exclaims our hostess as our unconcealed sur- 

 prise and pleasure in this lovely garden pour forth 

 in excited talk. On the right, entering the per- 

 gola — a pergola with a raison d'etre, for it con- 

 ducts from gate to house — are gray foliage of pinks, 

 Canterbury bells back of those; farther down, 

 masses of Shasta daisies, gigantic here in stature; 

 beyond those, clouds of the gray gypsophila; and 

 then a delicious mass of color in tones ranging 

 from pale lavender to deepest purple, the flowers 

 most excellently grouped, an effect of carelessness 

 which in an informal border is supremest art; 

 among the flowers used, the hyacinth-flowered 

 candytuft which Burpee sends out, here appear- 

 ing in pinkish mauve, deep purplish pink, and 

 white; purple pansies snuggling among these; 

 rich purple annual larkspur sending up a few 

 spires here and there; and climbing above all a 

 lavender and mauve sweet pea, faint notes of the 

 color below reflected in the air. 



Pictures are here shown of the rustic tea-house, 

 or recessed arbor, at one end of this pergola immedi- 



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