COLOUR SCHEMES FOR THE 

 FLOWER GARDEN 



CHAPTER I 



A MARCH STUDY AND THE BORDER OF EARLY 

 BULBS 



There comes a day towards the end of March when 

 there is but little wind, and that is from the west or 

 even south-west. The sun has gained much power, 

 so that it is pleasant to sit out in the garden, or, better 

 still, in some sunny nook of sheltered woodland. There 

 is such a place among silver-trunked Birches, with 

 here and there the splendid richness of masses of dark 

 Holly. The rest of the background above eye-level 

 is of the warm bud-colour of the summer-leafing trees, 

 and, below, the fading rust of the now nearly flattened 

 fronds of last year's Bracken, and the still paler drifts 

 of leaves from neighbouring Oaks and Chestnuts. The 

 sunlight strikes brightly on the silver stems of the 

 Birches, and casts their shadows clear-cut across the 

 grassy woodland ride. The grass is barely green as 

 yet, but has the faint winter green of herbage not yet 

 grown and still powdered with the short remnants 

 of the fine-leaved, last-year-mown heath grasses. 



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