THE AMATEUR GARDEN 



moment when the visitor may be said to be fully 

 received. On the other hand, if the approach is 

 a returning one from the rear of the entire 

 campus, — where stands the institution's only 

 other building, a large tall-towered gymnasium, 

 also of red brick, — these superlative effects 

 show out across an open grassy distance of from 

 two hundred to three hundred feet. 



Wherefore — and here at last we venture to 

 bring names of things and their places together 

 — at the fronts of the northernmost and south- 

 ernmost of these three "Halls" we set favorite 

 varieties of white-flowering spireas {Thunhergia, 

 sorbifolia,arguta,Van Houttei), the pearl-bush {ex- 

 ochorda), pink diervillas, and flowering-almonds. 

 After these, on the southern side of the south- 

 ernmost building, for example, followed lilacs, 

 white and purple, against the masonry, — the 

 white against the red brick, the lilac tint 

 well away from it, — with tamarisk and kerria 

 outside, abreast of them, and then pink and red 

 spireas {Bumaldi and its dwarf variety, An- 

 thony Waterer). On the other side of the same 

 house we set deutzias {scabra against the brick- 



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