FOR THE HOME BEAUTIFUL 43 



Beautiful and elaborate privet hedges are seen, 

 giving us a new idea what wonderful effects may 

 be created with this type of hedge where time, 

 effort and creative ingenuity are combined. We 

 see hedges laid out in art naveau with a pink or 

 blue Otaksa hydrangea planted in each or alter- 

 nating squares. We see them trimmed into ball 

 shape and spaced equidistant apart. Different 

 designs and individual tastes without number, all 

 there for comparison and choice. 



Impressive groupings of trees, evergreens and 

 flowering shrubs without apparent end, in many 

 delightful form and color combinations. 



A unique and novel protection for a perennial 

 border seen is well worthy of mention here. At 

 either end of the border, and twice in between, 

 spaced equal distances apart, artistic partitions 

 about eight feet in height had been built, each 

 equipped with a pair of double window sashes. 

 When noted the lower sashes were raised 1 ; evidently 

 kept open in fair weather and lowered at times of 

 high winds and during the winter. These parti- 

 tions were painted white and evidently were lawn 

 decorations of utility as well as of beauty. 



Were one to travel over the selfsame route for 

 the second or the third time he would be almost 

 sure to discover something of interest that had 

 previously escaped observation. 



Yes, these quests after the beautiful, "voyages 



