New-York tribune., 1899-05-14

OF the unthinking. The combinations OF color
she describes arc in the highest degree beauti-
full. She points out that even the now exp ploded
bedding fashion may give satisfying color
harmony an example being a parterre in a fine
old English garden OF her acquaintance 1t
planned by the master and not by the gardener
and was treated in one harmonious colorng
OF full yellow, orange and orange brown, half
hardy ANNALS such as French and African
marfgolds, zinnias and nasturtiums being freely
used IT was the most noble treatment of one
limited range of cooring | have seen in n
garden brilliant without being garish and
sumptuousy gorgeous without the reproacJ Of
gaudiness-a precious lesson in temperance and
restraint In the Of the color and an
admirable exposition If its powerful effeCl in
the hands OF a true artist" The author gives
due disapproval to the absurdities of the bed
ding fashion, but with the quiet good sense
that marks the entire book she notes that it
has its wise side-as a brilliant environment for
a great country house inhabited for only few
weeks in spring or autumn. feature in
a small garden whose owner has a special liking
for certain classes or mixtures of plants and
wants to grow them in a bed by themselves.
One OF the evil results of bedding in England,
she reminds us, was the injustice done to inno-
Of fashion with the bedding craze and has
hardly yet returned
We read with pleasure Miss JekyIrs sugges-
ton that if large space has to be dealt with
a great part would better be laid out in wood
and some Of it in woodland Of the orchard type.
Why is the orchard she asks, put out Of the
way in some remote region beyond the kitchen
garden and stables? She would like the lawn
no
directly into it on one side, and she would plant
groups and even groves OF beautiful fruit trees
and alleys OF nut trees, and tangles of pictur-
esque fruit bearing bushes and small trees.
Daffods and cowslips she wants to plant in the
grass beneath the trees. Such orchard gar
den is possible only where there is a wide do
main, but beauty is not dependent on space.
Our author declares that the size Of a garden
has very little to do with its merit, and cites
illustration little garden OF third OF
an acre. one OF the most interesting and
joyable enclosures she has ever seen. The
master had built with his own hands, where
more privacy was wanted, high rugged walls,
with spaces for many rock loving plants. and
had made the wall die away SO cleyerly into the
rock garden that the whole thing looked like a
garden founded on some ancient ruined struct-
ure. And it was all done with much taste
that there was nothing jarring strained look
ing still less anything cockneyfed. but all easy
and pleasant and pretty, while the happy look
of the plants at once proclaimed his sympathy
with them and his comprehensive knowledge OF
their wants. In the same garden was walled
inclosure where Tree Peonies and some OF the
harder Of the Oriental rhododendrons
thriving, and there were pretty spaces of lawn,
and flower border and shrub-cump, alike beau
tiful and enjoyable. all within a small space, and
yet not crowded-the garden of one who a
keen flower-lover, as well as a world known
botanist"
Constant and above all intelligent is tho
price Of success in gardening-a fact which the