THE WELL-CONSIDERED GARDEN 



cause many exciting goings and comings over the 

 little hills and dales of our greensward, for we are 

 fortunate in living on uneven ground. 



June 3, 1921. 



And now that short but fragrant and most ex- 

 citing time of blooming Philadelphus is here, and 

 our commoner varieties, coronarius and grandi- 

 florus, were never finer. It is a singular fact that 

 the more hidden such shrubs are the better they 

 happen to bloom; in unpromising spots such as 

 beside the toolhouse and so on, the greater 

 loveliness of bloom they seem to show. Our fin- 

 est is in such an humble position, and next it, 

 dripping over it indeed, is our best variety of 

 Wistaria — a longer tassel of bloom, a richer 

 lavender than those which hang in delicious pro- 

 fusion over the trellises at each end of the brick 

 terrace along the south side of the house at the 

 moment. But these, too, have their charm, for 

 they are this year hung thick with bloom, due to 

 three or four years of very severe pruning. Each 

 year we cut all young growth, twice during the 

 summer back to two eyes; this we do after bloom- 

 ing, then again some six weeks later. These vines 

 are trained along a horizontal bar of the trellis, 

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