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we are to locate the tall plants first we must start with the fall and work 

 forward. Another good reason for this method is that while many plants 

 become unsightly after their season is past, all of them are presentable 

 up to their time of bloom. So we can be assured that every late-blooming 

 plant we place will present a spot of green throughout the season. 



To begin then with October. The splendor of the late fall garden lies, 

 as every one knows, in the Asters and the Chrysanthemums, so we will 

 start with a sufficient quantity of these to form a good October composi- 



OCT05LR.- Plan and Elevation. 



tion. The Delphinium may be blooming sparsely then, as it often does, 

 so we will choose the blue-violet New England Aster (No. 20) to go with 

 it, and our Chrysanthemums shall be yellow and bronze. The tall Asters 

 are rather thin and scrawny in their lower stems, so we will tuck them in 

 behind Peony "A" which will partially screen them. One patch of Chrys- 

 anthemums we will place where their handsome foliage will hide the 

 Delphinium when it is cut down after its first bloom, and another will 

 serve to shield the lower leaves of the Althaea, often brown and withered 



