precision; I love its exactness. It makes you 

 seem all the more matchless, as you lead me to 

 the Rose clad arbor just beyond you. 



Again Gruss an Teplitz, I salute you! 



THE BLUE GARDEN 



How few blue flowers are grown, how many 

 blue flowers there are! If you have the space, 

 please have a blue garden. It may even be a very 

 small blue garden, but do have a blue garden. I 

 will tell you all about the blue garden I know of. 

 A rough stone wall is its background and on each 

 side are huge irregular boulders, full of snug and 

 deep little crevices and cracks packed with loam, 

 well rammed and pressed down, as deep as it will 

 go, and in these places are planted Forget-me- 

 nots, Lobelias, a few seeds of the blue White-eyed 

 Verbena, blue Hare Bells, Torenia, Golden Portu- 

 laca, and blue flowered Periwinkle. They thrive 

 so well, and grow out of these narrow spaces ador- 



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