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The house is thirty feet from the street line. The owner of the 

 lot believes with me that every garden should be enclosed, and has 

 selected as the most desirable enclosure a hedge of California 

 privet, which furnishes him a bacliground of verdure to set his 

 flowering plants against. He has had some difficulty in establish- 

 ing a portion of the hedge immediately between his house and 

 those of his neighbors, on account of the shade, but has overcome 

 it by extra culture, and deep trenching and draining. The plan of 

 his extremely simple but effective garden is as follows : a border 

 has been made entirely around the house except at the entrances, 

 varying from one to three feet in wadth. The front porch is 

 covered with Halleana and Golden Honeysuckles, Clematis JacJc- 

 manni, C. Henry i^ and C. paniciilata. The borders in front of 

 the porch are planted with Eulalia gracillima, Erianthus, Funkia 

 Sieholdiana and F. subcordata — the Funkias in front of the Eulalia 

 and Erianthus. As all these plants are grow-n for form and 

 foliage they are effective throughout the season. A group of 

 Tuberous Begonias is also introduced in this border, and of course 

 has to be planted every season. The border on the east side of 

 the house is quite shaded, and consequently is planted with shade- 

 loving plants, principally native Ferns, with groups of native 

 Cypripediums, Trilliums, Lilies-of-the-valley, Tiarellas, and a 

 large group of Lancifolium lilies at the end of the border where 

 there is the most light. The garden back of the house is almost 

 fifty feet square, but one side is perhaps sixty feet on account of 

 the shape of the house. This garden is completely enclosed by a 

 border, except where it is broken by the necessary path. This 

 border, commences west of the kitchen porch steps, and follows 

 the line of the house until it reaches the division between the 

 front and back garden ; it then crosses to the hedge, which it 

 follows, so that there is a flower border in front of all the hedge 

 back of the line of the house. This border is five feet wide 

 except on the west side of the lot, where the entire space, about 

 seven feet, is taken up, except a narrow border of grass between 

 the shrubs and the walk. This space is planted with fifty hardy 

 roses, mostly H3^brid Perpetuals, in tliirty of the best varieties. 

 In front of these roses is planted a narrow border, about ten inches 

 wide, of various narcissi ; among the roses, gladioli are planted 

 every spring. The remainder of the border is planted with 

 herbaceous plants in groups, with a selection that secures a 



