A quaint, very old farmer came to see this t 

 Blue Garden. He gazed and gazed for a long 



time, then turning to me remarked: "Well, % 

 ma'am, you have brought down to earth a bit of 

 the sky." 



Study the harmony of blues, use less white ^ 



and more blue in the garden; all the shades of |^ 



blue when assembling many colors together. M 



White and gold are harmoniously charming, but id 



blue harmonizes where white would be cold and m 



unfriendly in an assemblage of many hues. There M 



may be great masses of color in a garden, and if ^ 



these colors are harmonious, and the different J| 



gardens or beds are well considered, and are ^ 



in harmony with the general surroundings, truly ^ 

 a part of them, the effect will be one of simplicity, 

 while the aim was not really for simplicity. In 

 great gardens, that suggestion of reposeful sim- 



plicity is not as difficult to obtain as it is in the « W 



smaller gardens, but careful blending, consider- W^. 



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