OTHER FLOWERS 



smooth turf. This is flanked by two narrow semi- 

 circular beds, in which, on August 7, delicate 

 serried masses (if one may combine those two 

 words) of annual larkspur were in bloom. Only 

 violet and lavender were used. Four other beds 

 at corners held perfect rose-plants, pink Druschki, 

 I think. These were not closely planted; one 

 could see the drawing of the rose-bush and its 

 lovely bloom against the well-tilled soil. And 

 at one corner of each rose-bed was the original 

 and fascinating addition, used as accents, of a 

 fine rounded specimen of lemon verbena. Of 

 course, the first idea here must have been the con- 

 venience of its position, but it looked well too, 

 and I said to myself, and have so often thought 

 since — - if all gardeners would only do more as 

 they want to do ! The owners of this garden wish 

 to gather lemon verbena as they pluck their roses 

 — what more natural than to grow one beside 

 the other? But the actual inability to do any- 

 thing wrong in gardening via architecture, is given 

 to but few. The possessors of this garden are 

 blessed above women in having a sixth sense of 

 absolute fitness, and instinctively they used the 

 plant they wanted in such a fashion as to make 

 its presence right, 



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