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Show The Small Garden BY LOUISE GOODLOE FALCONER. 0f0O"R weeks now, many women; Ah have been pouring over seed I catalogues, bulb catalogues, and I J rose catalogues, but the wise woman has already made up her mind just what she will have this year. If she Is truiy wise, she won't undertake ! one bit more than she can easily and eatlsfactorily do herself, for real gar- , Why Not Depart from the Usual Rnt dening Is only real when all done I yourself, and not by a gardener' hired for the purpose. By all means let him do the hard work, euch as spading and preparing the soil, but when this Is once done, the rest should I He with you. The work from then on Is light, provided you keep the old adage fresh before you. "of never putting put-ting off for the morrow that which can be done today." Not even weeds will have time to grow if they are kopt in a constant state of decapitation. decapita-tion. If you have never done so. why not depart from the usual rut and have I special garden this year, where all flowers aro of one color, or of a pe-t'Mly pe-t'Mly thought out plan of color? 'J There ar f.o many different varieties of flowers, all of the parent color, but shading into myriad tones, that It l lmpoe,ihl to make It monotonous. An all yollow garden Is a wonderful wonder-ful ight. and It Is a well recognized fact that yellow Is the best nerve color 1110 re Is. Beginning with the crocuB. which PeeP up before the snow is really off 'be ground, telling you more than anything else that the real spring W you have next the daffodils and Jonquils Here many of us would like O lo stop, for I don't believe there is a flower that comes to us through the entile- year that la mors loved than 1h-. But as a solace, we hav tho tulips, single and double. Great shrubs of forsyethias are abloom everywhere, and your garden looks like a gulden sun. Then come the summer beauties, poppies, sunflowers, daisies, all easily and cheaply grown from seed. If roses are wanted, there are dozens, all beautiful, to choose from. Late summer brings the golden glow and nnd Hato h Special Garden This Year? the golden rod, with the little hardy chrysantlhemums to take you well Into tho autumn. Three seasons filled with yellow glory- TV here some contrast Is preferred, pink combines charmingly with the yellow, and Is a favorite combination with the French. Though not abundant, abund-ant, there are ample pink flowers to bo sufficient, and what there is, la particularly desirable. The sliver pink Of the Murtllo tulip is noteworthy whenever found, and the popples in pink are grace Itself. No flower gives better results through the intense heat of our long summer , than does the zinnia In this color, and its prolific bloom is always to be relied on. I A very' brilliant combination can he made by combining tho d&ep and lighter blues with the yellow. Here your field is a little more limited than "with other colors, for there does not seem to be quite as many satisfactory I flowers among the blues. However what is used shows to fruoh wonderful advantage that the limited numbsr is not noticed. Lavender used with pink is a more ! unusual combination, but when care- Ifullv done the effect is MJnty as possible, but it is batter fitted for a small bed than a largo garden. I Tf vou are fairly far North, or where your climate permits, the old standby of crimson and yellow is hard to I m- , prove upon, but where the heat la verr intense, too much red seem, only to accentuate your discomfort Where possible, it is wise to have somewhere j out of sight a bed of crimson flowers, for when tho first cool days of autumn au-tumn come, nothing seems quite so : welcome as a big bunch of these flowers. flow-ers. Above all plant quantities of nasturtium seed, for It never fails 1 you. and these flowers have been known to save many an otherwise flowcrless day. I To me tho garden of gardens is j the white garden, with all the perfume per-fume In the world in it. First of all. plant all the lily bulbs you can buy In it, and every time you can buy another, an-other, add It, until you have all the lilies you can use. which is a pretty-big pretty-big order. Then fill with every white flower you can And In tho catalogues, and when you have done this fill in every' possible space with the white heliotrope. After you have had this garden one . entire year, picture the result. First I the little snowdrop putting its little inquisitive white head above the snow, thinking it won't bo seen on account of its white dress, on through the crocuses cro-cuses to tho white daffodils and poet'a i narcissi. Then the tulips and peonies and lilacs. Spring is one breathless perfume and beauty. Applo and cherry blossoms add their shower of white petals, whllo fringe and magnolia mag-nolia deck the Bhrubs Soon will come j your lilies, and the air will be heavy j with their porfume, and the eye rav-j rav-j Ished with their beauty. The white j popples arc like bits of thistle down, i and the sweet peas like wee babies In their peaked caps Later will come the Japanese anenomcs. great flowers j of white velvet swaying on their dull green stems. The leaves to this plan t are almost as attractive as the bloom, ; fur the plant grows so beautifully that it Is an ornament In Itself. Before ! autumn goes, come the white asters ! and chrysanthemums, both tender and I hardy. One of the chief beauties of the ! white garden, lies in th fact that Is just as beautiful by night as It is by day. Something that can't bo said 'for any other flower. On moonlight nights, when each flower is distinct, and tho fragrance of lilies and hello-trope hello-trope and rosea fills the air, you will find that the cares of the day will slip away, and your last waking thought will be one of thanks for tho man or the woman who first invented gardens, especially white gardens. |