THE AMATEUR GARDEN 



show forth so as to avoid an anticlimax to one 

 passing along the same front from the opposite 

 direction ? We promptly saw, — as the reader 

 sees, no doubt, before we can tell it, — that what 

 we wanted was two crescendos meeting some- 

 where near the middle; a crescendo passing into 

 a diminuendo from whichever end you moved 

 to the other — a swell. We saw that our loud- 

 pedal effect should come upon "Middle Hall." 

 So there, on its lucky bit of Greek porch, we 

 bestowed the purple wistaria for spring, and for 

 late summer that fragrant snowdrift, the clema- 

 tis paniculata, so adapted as to festoon and 

 chaplet, but never to smother, the Greek col- 

 umns. On one of this structure's sides we 

 planted forsythia, backed closer against the 

 masonry by althaeas, with the low and ex- 

 quisite mahonia (holly-leafed barberry) under 

 its outer spread. On the other side of the house 

 we placed, first, loniceras (bush honeysuckles); 

 next, azaleas, in variety and profusion; then, 

 toward the rear end, a mass of hardy hydrangeas 

 {Hydrangea 'paniculata grandiflora), and at the 

 very back of the pile another mass, of the flower- 



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