44 COMMON SENSE GARDENS 



same time is convenient to use. With half-tim- 

 bered work brick composes well ; with stucco, stone 

 or brick ; with an old frame house or one of colonial 

 design, white pickets or white pickets on a low 

 brick wall, a combination much used in the South 

 and a very pleasing one ; or with any of the above- 

 mentioned designs a hedge of Privet, Hemlock or 

 Box, or a hedge combined with a fence or wall. 

 A little thought, with perhaps the aid of a tem- 

 porary section of enclosure, will enable you to 

 determine the most appropriate materials or com- 

 binations if you are unable to focus well your 

 mind's eye, and any consideration of this most 

 important subject will be well repaid. 



For such a garden a setting will have to be made 

 by planting good trees, trees that will be beautiful 

 and interesting in Winter when divested of their 

 foliage as well as in Summer when in their full- 

 fledged glory. These should be set out both in 

 relation to the house and garden, and the neces- 

 sary shading and filling in given with evergreens 

 and shrubs, not set in stiff, unsightly clumps like 

 old-fashioned bouquets, but used intelligently both 

 as to form and colour; single specimens or two or 



