WHERE TO PLANT WHAT 



work and Lemoynei and gracilis outside). In a 

 wing corner, where melting snows crash down 

 from a roof -valley, we placed the purple-flowered 

 Lespedeza penduliflorum, which each year dies 

 to the ground before the snow-slides come, yet 

 each September blooms from three to four feet 

 high in drooping profusion. Then from that 

 angle to the rear corner we put in a mass of 

 pink wild roses. Lastly, on the tall, doorless, 

 windowless rear end, we planted the crimson- 

 rambler rose, and under it a good hundred of 

 the red rugosas. 



In the arrangement of these plantings we 

 found ourselves called upon to deal with a very 

 attractive and, to us, new phase of our question. 

 The rising progression from front to rear was a 

 matter of course, but how about the progression 

 at right angles to it; from building to build- 

 ing, that is, of these three so nearly ahke in 

 size and dignity ? To the passer-by along their 

 Main Street front — the admiring passer-by, as 

 we hope — should there be no augmentation of 

 charm in the direction of his steps .^ And if 

 there should be, then where and how ought it to 



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