. The little garden. t generally, the advice I remember hearing inmy young days given by a distinguished clergyman to young as-pirants to his profession, Keep out of it if you can, appUes,with a bit of transposition, to most ornament for the little gar-den. Keep it out if you can. Your garden will be better if extra-neous objects are few. I have just seen a lovely Southern house,a house whose white-pillared portico and rose-colored brick haveas a foil a whole blue-green mountain behind them. Here, acrossa walk from the steps to this portico, is a shallow marble basin forbirds, a tiny marble fa
. The little garden. t generally, the advice I remember hearing inmy young days given by a distinguished clergyman to young as-pirants to his profession, Keep out of it if you can, appUes,with a bit of transposition, to most ornament for the little gar-den. Keep it out if you can. Your garden will be better if extra-neous objects are few. I have just seen a lovely Southern house,a house whose white-pillared portico and rose-colored brick haveas a foil a whole blue-green mountain behind them. Here, acrossa walk from the steps to this portico, is a shallow marble basin forbirds, a tiny marble faun piping on one edge. This carries thewhite of the marble pillars and steps farther into the foregroundof green lawn and trees, and is successful because it is suitable,quite apart from its being in itseK a useful and charming basin set against the wall may form an excellent quietdecorative accessory of the introduction of water into the littlegarden. It may be entirely unobtrusive in line, or in garlanding. ACCESSORIES OF THE GARDEN 41 of vines; yet it adds a living interest to a shaded spot; it givesthe pleasure of the sound of running water that is refreshing onwarm days, and also serves as a good terminal feature for agarden walk or vista. Advice concerning pools for the small garden is difficult togive; where water is available, however, a small sheet of it, for-mally inclosed, and with an edge flush with the ground, neverraised, most truly adds life and charm to all about it. In thesmall pool no planting should be done: not even a single Uly shouldinterfere with the bright surface, where unbroken light or un-broken reflection is to be attained. Is there anything more agree-able to the eye than little ordered squares of turf, with flower-heads of gay colors held in high relief against them? What Imean by Uttle ordered squares is the rectangular green of anysmall formal garden. Grass-walks are the perfect ones for thevery little garden — they are less interrupti
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