Pageant of the Garden.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13638, 4 July 1908, Page 7

Pageant of the Garden.

In a review of ' ihe Hummer Garden" (Mrs. btephen' Batson), a London writer says:

ilie sun of summer filunte, and it makes our gardens, even the smallest and limn-, bitist of them, leap to life and colour. The lilac is. opening us petals, the . apple biossom is- a cloud of white and ml, and tlu> cherry, b.cssoin is already :on the wane. it is gardeu ' weather, and here is; a pleasant book to . read . under tlie trees, . whose . 'leaves .-w> welcome, in the fr-.sh greemiess,, you may- watch growing bigger every day. it is a book which might have been entitled "The Pageant of the Garden." Its prime theme is this : How, \o keep the garden in - flower and beauty all through the summer. Did not i vancis Bacon, Mre- Batsoij remind us, write in Ins etsay on Gardens : . ".1 ;do hold' iii the Koyal Ordering, of Gardens there ought to be Gardecs. - for all the months in the Yeare ;m which severally Things of Beautiemuiy be then in season." - • .

A hard problem, liiv iiiiistei:,. but you spoke wisely' there! . . -- <How .is the mail will ,a. : single plot of ground to make it look bright: all the. year round. He can t,. but. he ca;i try, and trying. lie will make the plot brighter than it .would otherwise have been. Tha- owner of u-larger garden, is in stead—so much better that lie may. even be -able to follow the advice, which lies m-Mis. Batson'a'remiwkt: ?

"Of the many delightful ideas - which (he c]()sii!g. yeiilis: of: tbe. .iiinetoonth century .'him* rtstored to the earnest gurdendr and which the- t.wentieiih centuiy win continue to unfold ■ and perfect, not the; least attractive is the art of making .Hie grass meadow, the wood, and the orchard a part of 1 the garden scheme/'