GARDEN NOTES IN 1921 



and in the summer much younger growth is pro- 

 duced, which hangs Hke green curtains from the 

 aforesaid bar. In winter we lift and tie these 

 Hghtly to the bar, letting them down again in 

 April or perhaps in March; this keeps them from 

 wind injury. They refuse to hang straight when 

 first released, but as soon as buds swell and flowers 

 and leaves attain their growth, this^weight brings 

 them most beautifully and decoratively into place. 

 Then we have a picture of hanging lavender Wis- 

 taria bloom all along the pendent stems, fifteen to 

 the yard, which I think one of the sweetest pic- 

 tures of color and of flowery embellishment possi- 

 ble to see. Below these Wistarias is blooming, too, 

 a fine white rose from an old New England gar- 

 den, a double flat rose, set round with buds and 

 with a handsome large green leaf, and beyond the 

 Wistaria cascades and mounds of bloom of the 

 ordinary Philadelphus lending both whiteness and 

 perfume to the pretty scene. With a foreground 

 for all this of clipped Cedar and Cotoneaster the 

 effect of green and flowery growth is something of 

 an achievement. And then to wander toward the 

 garden, where in the freshest of early June green 

 the radiance of pale Oriental Poppies shines forth 

 framed in the delicacy of tall white Valerian, with 

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