FLOWERS 
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ter the house and the garden are carefully and 
thoroughly built, then the place as a whole 
stands ready for furnishing, the indoors with 
its kind, the outdoors with its. Draperies in 
the house, then large pieces of furniture, then 
the smaller, and then the purely decorative 
material; vines first on the outside, then trees, 
next shrubs — and finally the flowers. Thus 
we come to them fully prepared to place and 
group them worthily, and to treat them as they 
deserve to be treated. 
The times when they are so dealt with are 
all too few, unintentional though our sins of 
omission are; as a consequence, the effect of 
the flowers which we do grow is not one- 
hundredth what it might be. For we should 
have not only the beauty of the flowers them- 
selves to delight us, but the beauty of the gar- 
den design — the garden scheme as a whole, 
picked out and quickened by them. They are, 
indeed, the garden craftsman’s colorful gems, 
his inlays of rich enamel, his mosaic chips, to 
be incorporated into his design as these jewels 
and bits of enamel or shell or whatnot are 
assembled under the hands of workers skilled 
in the crafts which employ them. 
Everyone knows of course that there are, 
generally speaking, two kinds of flowering 
