A GARDEN NOTE-BOOK 



sweeter picture, and this was partly because of its 

 setting of garden, but also because of the rare 

 beauty of that garden itself. Gray and green 

 foliage and flowers of yellow, orange, and lemon 

 hues were delightfully used in the small stretches 

 of ground lying about the house. The place covers 

 less than one-fourth of an acre. 



On first seeing the garden I thought the color 

 the captivating thing. Then said I, no, it is the 

 arrangement of form, the subtle knowledge of how 

 to place thiags. Finally I realized that it was 

 both. Miss Kate 0. Sessions, of San Diego, whose 

 work in gardening is well known, and whose name 

 is synonymous with great knowledge of the trees, 

 shrubs, and flowers of this region, and with the 

 beautiful use of such things, planned and executed 

 this Coronado garden, to please the owner, who 

 wished the planting to fit the architecture, to be a 

 bit of New Mexico transplanted. 



To return, however, after too long a digression. 

 Here, to the right of the entrance-porch and be- 

 yond a blue-framed window, is a Hopi ladder 

 leaning casually against the ochre of the wall. 

 This serves as support for a climbing aloe, the 

 burnt-orange flowers pointing upward above its 

 leaves. Around the corner of the northeast wall 



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