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    COLOUR IN THE
    FLOWER GARDEN


[Illustration: _WHITE LILIES._]




    _THE "COUNTRY LIFE"
    LIBRARY_


                 COLOUR IN THE
                 FLOWER GARDEN


                      BY
                GERTRUDE JEKYLL


       [Illustration: A bunch of flowers.]


                 PUBLISHED BY

    "COUNTRY LIFE," LTD.   GEORGE NEWNES, LTD.
    20, TAVISTOCK STREET   7-12, SOUTHAMPTON ST.
    COVENT GARDEN, W.C.    COVENT GARDEN, W.C.

                      1908




INTRODUCTION


To plant and maintain a flower-border, _with 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
empty, 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