144 THE PLAN OF THE PLACE 



Speaking of the old-fashioned garden reminds 

 me of one of William Falconer's excellent para- 

 graphs ("Gardening," November 15, 1897, p. 75): 

 "We tried it in Schenley Park this year. We 

 needed a handy dumping ground, and hit on the 

 head of a deep ravine between two woods; into 

 it we dumped hundreds upon hundreds of wagon 

 loads of rock and clay, filling it near to the top, 

 then surfaced it with good soil. Here we planted 

 some shrubs, and broadcast among them set out 

 scarlet poppies, eschscholtzias, dwarf nasturtiums, 

 snapdragons, pausies, marigolds, and all manner 

 of hardy herbaceous plants, having enough of 

 each sort to make a mass of its kind and color, 

 and the effect was fine. In the middle was a 

 plantation of hundreds of clumps of Japan and 

 German irises interplanted, thence succeeded by 

 thousands of gladioli, and banded with montbre- 

 tias, from which we had flowers till frost. The 

 steep face of this hill was graded a little and a 

 series of winding stone steps set into it, making 

 the descent into the hollow quite easy; the stones 

 were the rough, uneven slabs secured in blasting 

 the rocks when grading in other parts of the park, 

 and both along outer edges of the steps and the 

 sides of the upper walk a wide belt of moss pink 

 was planted ; and the banks all about were 

 planted with shrubs, vines, wild roses, columbines 

 and other plants. More cameras and kodaks were 

 levelled by visitors at this piece of gardening than 



