io8 COLOUR SCHEMES 



gold-variegated Euonjmius clipped down to not much 

 over two feet. The edge next the path would be 

 kept trimmed to a line. 



The strength of colour and degree of variation are 

 so great that it is well worth going to a nursery to 

 pick out all these gold-variegated plants. It is not 

 enough to tell the gardener to get them. There 

 should be fervour on the pa rt of the garden's owner 

 such as will take him on a gold-plant pilgrimage to all 

 good nurseries within reach, or even to some rather 

 out of reach. No gQod _ gardening c o mes of not 

 ta king pain s. All good gardening is the reward of 

 w ell-directed and st rongly" sustamed effort. 



Where, in the Gold garden, the paths meet and 

 swing round in a circle, there may be some accentua- 

 ting ornament — a sundial, a stone vase for flowers, 

 or a tank for a yellow Water-lily. If a sundial, and 

 there should be some incised lettering, do not have 

 the letters gilt because it is the Gold garden ; the 

 colour and texture of gilding are quite out of place. 

 If there is a tank, do not have goldfish ; their colour 

 is quite wrong. Never hurt the garden for the sake 

 of the tempting word. 



The word " gold " in itself is, of course, an absurdity ; 

 no growing leaf or flower has the least resemblance 

 to the colour of gold. But the word may be used 

 because it has passed into the language with a com- 

 monly accepted meaning. 



I have always felt a certain hesitation in using the 

 free-growing perennial Sunflowers. For one thing, the 

 kinds with the running roots are difficult to keep in 



