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INTRODUCTION

To plant and maintain a flower-border, mth a good
scheme for colour^ is by no means the easy thing that is
commonly supposed.
I believe that the only way in which it can be made
successful is to devote certain borders to certain times
of year; each border or garden region to be bright
for from one to three months.
Nothing seems to me more unsatisfactory than the
border that in spring shows a few patches of flowering
bulbs in ground otherwise looking e^ipty, or with tufts
of herbaceous plants just coming through. Then the
bulbs die down, and their place is wanted for something
that comes later. Either the ground will then show
bare patches, or the place of the bulbs will be forgotten
and they will be cruelly stabbed by fork or trowel
when it is wished to put something in the apparently
empty space.
For many years I have been working at these
problems in my own garden, and having come to
certain conclusions, can venture to put them forth
with some confidence. I may mention that from the
nature of the ground, in its original state partly wooded
and partly bare field, and from its having been brought
into cultivation and some sort of shape before it was



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WHITE LILIES.
The " CouDijRr Life"

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COLOUR SCHEME IN
THE FLOWER GARDEN



GERTRUDE JEKYLL



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