. . . The warm, sweet south 
With wooing prophesies is sent. 
She wakens to a first, faint glad surprise 
Each dull, brown dreaming woodland thing; 
And on each blade and sheath and bougli 
Quivers the miracle of Spring! 
O winds that woo, my soul unto 
The hidden rapture of the budding larch 
1 pierce with you the brown sheath through— 
I am a child of March! 
Regina Armstrong. 
A True Step of Progress in Artistic 
Gardening 
The artistic sense of the American Public has at last been thoroughly aroused, 
and as in all matters we are never half-hearted about any undertaking— America’s 
thoroughness is its foremost recommendation. The usual order of things for the 
person in want of matters artistic, namely, to search Europe for them, will soon be 
reversed, as present conditions only too clearly indicate, and we will find Europeans 
seeking our shores in order to satisfy their thirst for artistic knowledge. 
Artistry in gardening depends upon harmonious blending of colors in the 
entire arrangement. Here is the opportunity to display our own distinctive artistic 
ability. 
To accomplish it, we must, above all, select our flowers critically as to < )U r 
needs, but how can we do it unless we all speak one color language. 
A detailed lurid description of a beautifully colored flower may revive in our 
mind untold eagerness to possess it, and its wealth of color may be gloriously 
pictured to us, yet how can we come to realize the exact shade of color effect, it will 
display to our senses as we step into the garden. 
This can be made possible in one way only, namely, to adopt a standardizes! 
Color Chart, Dr. Ridgway’s "Color Standards and Nomenclature,” which we have 
used in describing our flowers in this book, is the only practical book in existence 
at present, and this Chart has been adopted by a great number of Garden Clubs. 
We are proud of the fact that we are pioneers in this new movement. It should 
be thoroughly understood that the chart descriptions are used for the purpose of 
conveying the color effect of the flowers in total and not in detail. Just as we use 
crude paints to produce perfect pictures, so is it essential to know the total Color 
effect of a flower to paint the picture in the garden. 
We can furnish "Dr. Ridgway’s Color Standards and Nomenclature” at the 
author’s price of $8.10 per copy postpaid. 
