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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE OF AMERICA. 



Photographs by 



rtesy of Lord & Bur 



The vestibule or summer garden of the above house before the clamber- 

 ing roses had claimed it as their own. 



WHO IS TO BLAME? 



WHY do so many gardeners, who grow 

 such splendid stock in their greenhouses 

 and arrange it so attractively, neglect 

 so glaringly its outside embellishment? A few- 

 vines around the foundations ; a rambler rose 

 over the vestibule — by its color relieving the 

 monotony of white paint and glass — a few peren- 

 nials and annuals happily combined will work 

 wonder effects, at a trifling cost. Can it be that 

 some of our gardener friends are "constitution- 

 ally languid"? As an object lesson, look at the 

 house in the lower right corner and compare it 

 with the one of similar design above. If this 

 won't stir up the languid ones — nothing short of 

 dynamite will. 



