BRIGHT-BERRIED GROWTH 



quite occupy his eye and mind. It occurs to 

 none of us to do more than enjoy the seasons as 

 they come. All at once — November, the leafless 

 tree, a few snowflakes in the air ! We rouse our- 

 selves to actualities. We look out of window at 

 our lot, small or large as it may be, we gaze down 

 the road, street, or avenue, and in a flash we 

 know that like Adam and Eve in Eden we are 

 naked. Our neighbors' houses, garages, stables, 

 become our intimate and outstanding objects of 

 vision. There is room, much room, in our coun- 

 try for a better understanding of the matter of 

 structural green; and by structural green I mean 

 the enclosings, the walls of foliage, the screens 

 of leafy things which we must erect before any- 

 thing really lovely and finished can take place 

 within. I sometimes think that most of us be- 

 gin at the wrong end of gardening. We start 

 with flowers. Like children the brightness is 

 our desire. But as time passes, we shall surely 

 come to realize that backgrounds, enclosings, in 

 short, that plans, are the starting-points of all 

 good gardens. 



After some sort of green or evergreen back- 

 ground shall have been attained comes naturally 

 the decorative idea, the planting against ever- 



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