FLOWERS 
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his garden is well furnished in the main with 
things that will grow easily therein. Then, if 
he still longs for that which Nature denies, it 
will be time to experiment, and the whole place 
need not suffer in appearance as a consequence. 
But there are a great many more kinds of 
flowers than any garden can possibly hold, and 
much that is lovely must be excluded. Indeed, 
more will have to stay out than may come in, 
for flower masses — that is, masses of one kind 
of flower — are as essential to good effect as 
mass generally. A border along a wall or 
walk may be mixed — usually should be in fact, 
in order to secure bloom through all the sea- 
son — but of each species composing the mix- 
ture anywhere from three to a dozen or twenty 
specimens must be planted, depending of 
course on the size and habit of the individual. 
Just here let me call special attention to the 
little planting diagram, which illustrates a 
principle which should be carefully observed 
in planting any mixed group or border. Where 
a clump of one species or variety meets a 
clump of another, a sharp line of demarkation 
must never be allowed. Instead, an effect of 
each tapering off into the other, secured by 
scattering together the two, not regularly at 
all but as they would be likely to mingle if self 
