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effective, are the trailing junipers, the Japanese, sqiia>iiatii 

 variety are preferable, mixed with the bright red of 

 the \\'inter berry, the deciduous holly. In the garden, 

 whether as specimen or as groups, the effect is gorgeous, 

 and I have a little pre-Christmas display in October. 



For indoor decoration the English Yew, Taxus baccata, 

 is unusual when combined with Japanese anemones, both 

 single white and the semi-double "Whirlwind." These 

 Jajianese anemones are most difficult of cultivation for me 

 and I have known these rare beautiful plants to change 

 their position in the same bed. I have planted them in one 

 place and in the Spring have found that they chose to 

 come up closer to the stone foundation than I had in- 

 tended. \\'hen this unique idiosyncrasy occurs and they 

 refuse to stay "put," it is necesar}- to use other plants to 

 edge the bed. perhaps the delightful blue campanulas or 

 Japanese bellflowers, which follow the Poet's Narcissi 

 blooming in early Spring. The anemones require proper 

 soil, mostly wooded earth or leafmold. and a shady loca- 

 tion. Their natural tendency is to hug the stones wherever 

 possible. 



Can you visualize a scarlet cactus dahlia or two in a 

 vase with a clump of rugged white Japanese rose, the 

 justlv well known Rosa nii^osaf Also another grouping 

 of an old fashioned "Show" rose-pink dahlia, an Ulrich 

 Erunner rose and a Conrad F. Meyer rose {Rosa rugosa) 

 — without question the most beautiful Japanese rose 

 grown — in a glass vase with a spray of the .delicious 

 feathery, silvery-blue Retinospora squarrosaf 



A few hardy delphiniums as well as the aconitnums. or 

 ]\Ionkshood. still bloom on my return late in the Fall, and 

 furnish lovely blooms for the house. I always look upon 

 these two as closely related because to me they seem some- 

 what alike. I find also at that time a few Chrysanthemum 

 a?xticiiin or daisies, and mixed with the purple of the 

 delphiniums they make a splendid display. 



A large bowl of African marigolds illuminates the 

 dining room and in a wall cabinet under a brilliant inside 

 light, in a peculiar scarlet vase, I place a few sprays of the 

 scarlet and gold berries of the Eitoiiyiiins, with some cut- 

 tings of the English Yews, the repaiideiis variety. A little 

 later the wall pockets on each side of this cabinet are filled 

 with bronze chrysanthemums, the dear old pungent sort 

 that, to my taste, is the only real chrysanthemum. 



I have a more delicate arrangement of the Tartaricum 

 variety of hardy asters, China asters and Spircca sprays 

 with a few black berries of the Regal's Privet, which, 

 strange to say, notwithstanding the many colors, all blend 

 well under low lights. So many vases and bowls of Win- 

 ter berries. Ilex verticiUata, give me a Christmas feeling in 

 Indian Summer days. I am the very proud possessor of 

 a few American holly bushes that are old enough to yield 

 their genuine holly berries, and these are especially 

 treasured because I do not know of any other holly bushes 

 in Indiana. There are .so many pseudo-holly leaved 

 shrubs that one more deeply appreciates the real when 

 fortunate enough to have them. 



The long borders of nasturtiums are in all their glory 

 and the fragrance indoors is very sweet. They are most 

 pleasing when placed with rare golden Chinese cypress or 

 Arbor vifcr and the biotas, which are planted in my garden 

 at the end of the nasturtium borders. This reminds me to 

 caution any one when buying seeds to buy only the choic- 

 est in the Spring, as one is well repaid for extra expense, 

 if any. In dealing with the practical end of gardening. I 

 always consider Spring the better time to plant the late 

 flowering or berrying plants and shrubs about which I 

 am writing. It seems the more logical time for success 

 with them, as they appear to be more dormant than when 

 they are yielding their glory in the Autumn. 



The Scabiosa, or Mourning Bride, as well as nasturtium, 

 repays one when onlj- the best seed is selected, the choicest 

 seed yielding the rarest shadings in these particular flow- 

 ers. The same is true of dozens of annuals. As a result 

 of my care in the Spring, I have a splendid planting all 

 Summer of Mourning Bride, where they bloom every year 

 as fillers for the Spanish Iris at the lily pond when the iris 

 have bloomed and gone. The Scabiosa or Grand Mother's 

 Pin Cushion, is such a clean and lovely little tufted plant, 

 which frequently seeds itself in my climate, that everyone 

 should have it. I cut it with abelias, sometimes called 

 the arbutus shrub, another beautiful but little known 

 shrub, and their purple and delicate pink shades harmonize 

 so well together that one seems the complement of the 

 other. I wonder who knows the unusual Beauty Fruit or 

 Callicarpa purpurea, which is at its best in the late 

 Autumn with its beauteous mulberry purple berries. The 

 flower is so infinitesimal as to be unnoticed in the Spring, 



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Spiraa Thunbergii and Corchorus Japonka in bloom at 

 Englishton Park. 



but one is amply rewarded during the Fall months, when 

 the shrub is heavily laden with delicately colored purple 

 berries. The effect of half a dozen full bearing branches 

 of their dry brown leaves mingling with a lavender phlox, 

 a few hardy asters and leaves of Tlwlia dealbata, a semi- 

 aquatic, is most unusual and striking. 



Even the form gives of its beauty to my eye for color. 

 In passing by a tobacco field a solitary bloom on a sucker 

 of a tobacco plant attracted my attention. It is a most 

 delicate shade of pink, a faint rosy dawn and it goes well 

 with a very pretty black eyed, light blue delphinium, 

 Kelway's "Silver Buckle." The combination is extremely 

 delicate in coloring. 



The cosmos in late Autumn are still lovely where pro- 

 tected from frost by the plantings. A single bloom of the. 

 lovely blue Stokesia with much of its crisp, green foliage, 

 is a charming companion for a canary yellow dahlia. The 

 blue and yellow were exquisite in a Rook wood green vase. 

 Bowls of Polyantha roses, the Baby Rambler, and little 

 Marie Pavie, throughout" the house in full flower and bud 

 make one think it is June instead of Autumn. 



I cannot pass by some gorgeous trees without a word, 

 the handsome sweet gums which enrich our gardens with 

 their purple, dull red and green colorings ; the variegated 

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