Colour in the flower garden . lingof regret for opportunities lost or misused that is thesentiment most often aroused in the mind of thegarden critic in the great number of pleasure-groundsthat are planted without thought or infrequently in passing along a country road, witheye alert to note the beauties that are so often presentedby little wayside cottage gardens, something is seenthat may well serve as a lesson in better planting-The lesson is generally one that teaches greater sim-plicity—the doing of one thing at a time ; the avoidanceof overmuch detail. One such cottage ha
Colour in the flower garden . lingof regret for opportunities lost or misused that is thesentiment most often aroused in the mind of thegarden critic in the great number of pleasure-groundsthat are planted without thought or infrequently in passing along a country road, witheye alert to note the beauties that are so often presentedby little wayside cottage gardens, something is seenthat may well serve as a lesson in better planting-The lesson is generally one that teaches greater sim-plicity—the doing of one thing at a time ; the avoidanceof overmuch detail. One such cottage has under theparlour window an old bush of Pyrus japonica. It hadbeen kept well spurred back and must have been amass of gorgeous bloom in early spring. The rest ofthe cottage was embowered in an old Grape Vine,perhaps of all wall plants the most beautiful, and, Ialways think, the most harmonious with cottages orsmall houses of the cottage class. It would seem to be least in place on the walls of houses of classical type, 106. tobo CO oo 1*3 (*, Q
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