bordered, framed and edged these shortcom- 

 ings will hardly be noticeable, except to our 

 own keenly critical eyes. 



With such a wealth of lovely plants for 

 early, mid-season, late Summer and Autumn 

 there is no reason why a garden should ever 

 have a "Summer-has-passed-appearance" un- 

 til snow flies. With the almost unlimited 

 material we have to draw upon, there is no 

 reason why our gardens should not delight 

 our eyes, month after month. It is the assem- 

 bling — that is the difficulty, you will say, but 

 it need not and should not be. 



It is not that we have not wonderful and 

 beautiful flowers for succession, because we 

 have. Indeed, if you please, I think we have 

 more of the later blooming plants than of the 

 earlier ones. It is purely a matter of group- 

 ing the later ones with early flowering ones, 

 very late flowering ones with the later ones. 

 It is all so simple, so easy, isn't it? 



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