BUILDING SITES 77 



CHAPTER III. 



THE EVOLUTION OF FARMARCADIA INTO HILLCREST MANOR, 

 BEGINNING WITH THE ARBORETUM TREE PLANTING 

 ANYWHERE PLANTS WONDER TREE HORTICULTURAL 

 ALPHABET POETS' CORNER PRUNING BLUE RIB- 

 BON SEVEN FOREST THINNING MAPLE 

 SUGAR HARVEST BUGS AND BUTTERFLIES 

 "YARBS" WILD GARDEN BOGLAND 

 TRY-OUT NURSERY. 



"God the first garden made, and the first city Cain." 



THESE pages include not only the planting scheme of the 

 arboretum and fruticetum but a more or less complete descrip- 

 tion of their growth. In our lettered plan a diamond stands for an 

 evergreen, a circle for deciduous trees, a triangle for herbaceous 

 plants, while the figures within the symbol refer to an alphabetically 

 indexed reference map and book, which give the name and location 

 of each plant evergreen, deciduous, herbaceous, perennial, and bien- 

 nial, interspersed and varied from year to year with bright hued 

 annuals raised from seed, root, or cutting. 



Plants were so placed that the taller backgrounded the low- 

 growing varieties, while color arrangement in planting was care- 

 fully considered both for summer and winter effects, the red branches 

 of the dogwood, for instance, contrasting effectively with the bright 

 yellow growth of the willows and the pea-green stalks of the kerria. 

 backed by silver white birches that in turn fronted evergreens. 

 These were in rare accord on glamored winter days "wherein 

 the air bit shrewdly" and later prolonged the "uncertain glory of an 

 April day." Did I plant them all? Yes every one, and nurtured 

 them like children. No night was too dark for me to locate this or 

 that shrub and tree. 



Building Sites. Plantings. 



Each desirable building site was planted to beautify future lawns 

 and develop vistas, aided by ornamental trees and shrubs, while along 

 the highway frontage every fifty feet were set Wier's cut-leaf maples, 

 forming a verdure-roofed roadway. 



Retinosperas and Biotas, both plain and variegated, broad and 

 feathery-leaved; the tropical looking empress tree (Paulownia 

 imperialis), the queenly Chinese magnolia, and its American relative 

 the cucumber tree, glorious rhododendrons, azaleas, and the rare 

 plants that Japan has poured in such prodigal profusion over our 

 land, we planted by the hundred. 



