MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 79 
BOTANICAL NAME COMMON NAME ss 
Viburnum tomentosum...........6. Single Japanese Snow- 
Badly setees sre dieve x x 
Viburnum tomentosum plicatum....Double Japanese Snow- 
[icra t Boat ated det be > ake 
Viter Agnus-Castus................ Chaste Tree. ......55. x xX 
A SPRING VISIT TO SOME ST. LOUIS GARDENS 
In order that the actual results obtained by amateurs in 
establishing successful backyard gardens might be recorded, 
three young women of the School for Gardening, Miss 
Katherine Perkins, Miss Edith Mason, and Miss Ruth Dowell, 
visited a few of these gardens early this spring and their 
observations follow: It should be borne in mind that the 
success of these gardens is due not only to the selection of 
plants adapted to a particular environment, but also to an 
intelligent care, which means an expenditure of time and 
labor such as only an enthusiast is willing to devote to a 
garden. 
BACKYARD GARDENS 
‘‘The following account of diverse gardens in various 
sections of St. Louis, including two gardens in the downtown 
district, indicates what has already been done and suggests 
possibilities for further beautification of the city. These 
gardens were selected at random and photographed at a 
time when they probably did not represent the height of 
beauty which they were capable of attaining. 
‘“The first three gardens are on the south side. An Arsenal 
Street garden proves that smoke need not discourage quantity 
of bloom. The yard, 84x35 feet, seen from the house looks 
like one great flower bed, for the dividing paths of cinders 
edged with wood are only a foot and a half wide. Rose 
trellises are spaced down the center bed, a bird house topping 
one of them. A home-made bird bath (a shallow pottery dish 
resting on a four-foot creosoted pole) is close by. The service 
path is on the extreme right and the laundry poles on a two- 
