THE AMATEUR GARDEN 



show forth so as to avoid an anticlimax to one 

 passing along the same front from the opposite 

 direction ? We promptly saw, — as the reader 

 sees, no doubt, before we can tell it, — that what 

 we wanted was two crescendos meeting some- 

 where near the middle; a crescendo passing into 

 a diminuendo from whichever end you moved 

 to the other — a swell. We saw that our loud- 

 pedal effect should come upon "Middle Hall.'* 

 So there, on its lucky bit of Greek porch, we 

 bestowed the purple wistaria for spring, and for 

 late summer that fragrant snowdrift, the clema- 

 tis paniculata, so adapted as to festoon and 

 chaplet, but never to smother, the Greek col- 

 umns. On one of this structure's sides we 

 planted forsythia, backed closer against the 

 masonry by althaeas, with the low and ex- 

 quisite mahonia (holly-leafed barberry) under 

 its outer spread. On the other side of the house 

 we placed, first, loniceras (bush honeysuckles); 

 next, azaleas, in variety and profusion; then, 

 toward the rear end, a mass of hardy hydrangeas 

 {Hydrangea paniculata grandiflora) , and at the 

 very back of the pile another mass, of the flower- 



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