108 GAEDENING FOR WOMEN 



growing it, or continues absolutely satisfied with 

 the weedy specimen under his care. 



A lady gardener, too, owing to her early sur- 

 roundings, the study of pictures, gardens, and 

 beautiful objects, should possess greater capacity 

 for appreciating fully the requirements of the 

 lady of the house. Plans for the arrangements of 

 flower beds, shrubbery, borders, surprises of all 

 sorts, are more speedily, more satisfactorily de- 

 cided upon when two people meet upon the ground 

 of similarity of education. 



(2) Taste in colour. 



This is more developed with the majority of 

 women than with men. We have so many oppor- 

 tunities, at the fortnightly exhibitions of the 

 Royal Horticultural Society, of seeing the latest 

 productions of beautiful flowers. Then, too, there 

 are books, such as Robinson's " English Flower 

 Garden," Kelway's Manual, Wright's " Beautiful 

 Gardens," to guide us. They show us plans for 

 grouping colours harmoniously in herbaceous 

 borders. Nowadays we all know what we want 

 to achieve, but we often fail to find the right one 

 to fulfil our imaginings. It hurts the eye to see 

 scarlet geraniums growing near mauve asters, or 

 the delicate pink of the Dorothy Perkins rose 

 killed by being placed near a glaring red brick 

 wall The lady gardener should, by her natural 



