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nestled up to a Miigho Pine or a group of Yucca 

 Filamentosa. 



Such a sunken garden as this, wliere irregularity, with 

 harmonious arrangement of color and form in foliage, is 

 tastefully carried out, would produce that charm of peace- 

 ful, restful character that is so much admired in our best 

 natural landscape scenery. 



The sunken garden is both useful and beautiful also 

 when used for more formal garden effects. It is particu- 

 larly adapted for a garden of Tea and Hybrid Tea roses 

 surrounded by climbing roses growing on chains festooned 

 from posts, beneath which, and surrounding the sunken 

 garden, would be a border of roses consisting of types 

 like the Hybrid Sweet Briers, the Rugosa Roses, 

 Austrian yellow brier roses and its Hybrids, and moss 

 roses. In shape it somewhat reseuibles the character of 

 an Italian Garden. By that I mean angular, not curved. 



A border may be planted with all the varieties of 

 flowers known, yet have little or no artistic beauty. 

 A bed of hardy flowers may be interesting and yet not 

 be beautiful. I recently saw growing naturally a mass 

 of Lobelia Cardinalis. It was in a low moist o].ien sunnv 

 situation, intermingled with the flowers of Red Top grass 

 (Agrostis Vulgaris) and others. The picture was so 

 strikingly beautiful that it could not fail to attract at- 

 tention. In our gardens we may not have, or want, the 

 same conditions, but we may make a picture with this 

 plant that would be at least attractive. On a border or 

 a bed we mass this Lobelia with another. Lobelia 

 .Sy|)hilitica, having blue flowers, ]ilanting among them 

 the hardy grass Elymus Glaucus, edged with a low grass 

 Festuca Glauca or the bed could be edged with a small 

 yellow Chrysanthemum or Aeuotheva Fraseri aiul 

 Youngii, still another combination with this cardinal 

 flower would produce a most beautiful effect. Lobelia 

 Cardinals intermingled with I'latycoden Grandiflorum, 

 blue and white, edged with the blue Campanula Car- 

 patica or Persifolia, Salvia Azurea would be charming, 

 planted with the Lobelia Cardinals. .A little sweet 

 Alyssum seed sown on the bare spaces would add to the 

 beauty of the bed, and some Montbretias, Tritomas or 

 Gladiolas would prolong the season till frost. 



A bed of Veronica Subsessilis and liai-d\ Del]ihinums, 

 intermingled with annual Larkspur and the annual Giant 

 yellow Poppy, Hummemannia Fumariacefolia woulil 

 make a striking and yet harmonious bed. 



The Funkia Subcordata Grandiflora intermingled with 

 Tritoma Pfitzeri would form an attractive group. The 

 old Feverfew or Matricaria would with a scarlet Phlox 

 like Coquelcot make a beautiful bed, lasting from June 

 to CJctober. The double white Yarrow Achille, "The 

 Pearl," might be used instead of the Feverfew and an 

 edging of Linum Perenne or Coccinum would improve 

 the bed. Anemone Japonica in all its varieties are most 

 beautiful in masses, and their beauty is enhanced if edged 

 with the hardy violet Aster, Acris Nanus. Masses' of 

 Anemone Japonica are beautiful on the wavey liorder 

 line of a shrubbery, a few groups of Helianthus Soliel 

 de C)r, Miss Mellish, Hoopsii Pimilum and the double 

 form of Heliopsis, form a splendid backgrounrl of color 

 for the white and pink Anemonies. 



A bed or group of hardy Chrysanthennims, yellow and 

 white will be more beautiful if edged with Sedum Spec- 

 tablis and a group of .Aster Novae .Anglica with its purple 

 flowers will be more admired if jilanted with groujjs of 

 Heleiums and a mass of Hemerocallis (day lily), 

 Thumbergii, Flava and fulva in the foreground. A bed 

 or group of Hydrangea Paniculata Grandiflora may lie 

 carpeted with .Anthemus Tinctora Kelwayii or edged with 

 Coreopsis Lanceolate or have for a background. Golden 

 Glow, Heliopsis Pitcheriana or some of the varieties of 



Helianthus. They also combine well with the Buddleva 

 \'eithcii, flowering at the same time. 



The Alahonia .Acquafolia with its red bronze foliage 

 uiakes a splendid front edge to a mass of Helenium or 

 Hardy Yellow Chrysanthemum or to a bed of Titomas 

 and Montbretias. 



.A pretty bed or group would be formed with a com- 

 bination of Penstemon Barbatus Torreyii and Oenothera 

 Fraseri and A^oungii. The Monardya Didyma groups 

 well with Physostegia Virginica Alba, but is likely to 

 overgrow anything planted with it. It is a charming and 

 striking plant for a border and is beautiful planted in 

 front of a group of golden foliaged plants like yellow 

 Elders, Golden Privet or Syringea. 



A bed or group of Montbretias and Tritomas needs 

 a blue to bring out their rich coloring. In the back- 

 ground or to one side a group of Garyopteris Mastican- 

 thus, Buddleya A'eitchii, and Buddleya V. Magnifca, 

 while planted over the ground may be a few Veronica 

 Subessilis and Stokesia Cyanus. .A little tall annual 

 Larksjnir would be eft'ective sown for a background and 

 some tlwf. blue Larkspur could be sown among the Mont- 

 bretias. The annual nemesis, blue gem, should make a 

 splendid plant to intermingle with Montbretias. 



A mass of Rehmannia Angulata with its Foxglove like 

 pink flowers growing 4 to 5 feet, makes a beautiful picture 

 on a liorder, these are splendid plants to arrange in har- 

 mony with groups of Hollyhocks and the various varieties 

 of h'o.xglove, all are stately flowers and intist not be 

 smothered up with shrubs or overhung by low branches, 

 let them stand out prominent at the bend of a shrubbery 

 Ijorder or centre of a bed, where their upright ilower 

 stems appear to challenge their more majestic com- 

 panions the Oaks, Beech and Birch. 



.A corner or background best suits the Boltonia 

 .Asteroides, a few scarlet Phlox or Red Gladiolus ming- 

 ling their heads with the showers of white daisy, mist 

 like flowers of the Boltonia, forms a pretty picture. The 

 Boltunia Latisquanna forms a splendid picture combined 

 with the large flowering Hybiscus or Alallow of which 

 there are now so many beautiful colors. I"or bortler 

 efi^ects in the .Autumn they are most charming. 



Heuchera Sanguinea and Veronica Subsessilis will 

 make a ])retty edging to a bed of Canna Buttercup, 

 carjieted with Tagettees or Sweet Allysum ; the .Anchusa 

 Italica Dropmore variety can be intermingled with a good 

 \ellow or orange Canna. Pentstemmon ISarbatus Torreii 

 forms a good combination with white Snapdragons or 

 with Physostegia Virginica .Alba, and a border planted 

 with Shasta Daisy or any white free blooming daisy, and 

 the pink Petunia Rosymoon, with a background of 

 Chrysanthenuim Cligolostmi with a few Montbretias 

 scattered through forn^s a picture not soon forgotten. 



Some times a very pretty feature may be made of a 

 sundial or a large vase, b}' i)re])aring a bed at its l)ase 

 and (jlanting the whole with May blooming Tulips in 

 all their varieties. Also with Spanish and English Iris 

 and Montbretias, Hyacinth Candicans, Tygridias, 

 .Alstromerias and Liliums, then plant the bed thick with 

 English Ivy, edge the bed with Phlox Subulata roses 

 or Eunoymons Radicans Varigata and an all season, )jer- 

 manent and pretty bed is obtained at a small cost. Phlox 

 Suljulata and .Alyssum Saxatile forms a pretty edging to a 

 quiet walk, especially when a few rocks are used to line 

 the walks edge. 



The .Aquilegia or Columbines are among the most 

 beautiful of spring flowers ; the\- are best grown in a 

 mass : they do well in partial shade grouped under trees, 

 or at the eilge of woods and shrubberies, they are a 

 charming feature. The Dielytras and Corydalis and the 

 loveL' DnroDJcums or Leopards bane all enjoy shady 



