A GARDEN NOTE-BOOK 



tulips should now be open to him, and one of the 

 lower summits of tulip satisfaction is attained. 



Among the many attributes which endear this 

 bulb to the gardener is its adaptability for use in 

 small plots or gardens. Brilliant effects can be 

 had in spaces almost absurdly small, if spring 

 flowers are used. How these minute squares of 

 color catch and dehght the eye in spring ! And 

 this is not only because gay color is welcome then. 



There is in Pennsylvania not far from its great 

 eastern city, in a countryside of gentle beauty 

 so like the Sussex Downs that one often fancies 

 himself in England, one of these charming smaller 

 gardens on a hillside. A constant and changing 

 beauty in flowers marks it, but in May, with all 

 the freshness of the spring about, it is a flashing 

 jewel with its tulips and abundance of other effec- 

 tive low-growing spring flowers. 



On a day in mid-May we descend from a brick- 

 paved terrace shadowed by a great pine, to a 

 gentle slope of turf toward this little garden, 

 enclosed by a four-foot hedge of clipped privet. 

 On the right, still below the sloping ground, an 

 old stone spring-house is seen, hung with clouds 

 of lavender wistaria. White lilacs in full beauty 

 flank the garden-gate — a picket gate set in a 



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