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succession of bloom. This selection includes Columbines, Japan- 

 ese Anemones, Irises, Lilies, Pseonies, German Irises, Helianthus 

 .lcetiflo7'us, Coreopsis lanceolafa, Gaillardias, RudbecMa hirta^ 

 hardy Asters, Campanulas, Phloxes, Delphiniums, and Heuchera 

 sanguinea. In front of these is a narrow border of Tulips, 

 Narcissuses, Millas, etc., which is carpeted with Phlox suhulata. 

 Room is also found for some Sweet Peas, Phlox Dnimmondii, and 

 Nasturtiums. 



The kitchen porch is covered with Honeysuckles and Clematis 

 and the brick wall of the house with Ampelopsis Veitchii. At one 

 corner of the house is planted a Chinese Wistaria which is trained 

 upon a single wire to the top of the house and then along the 

 eaves. The necessary but usually unsightly posts for the clothes 

 line, are converted into a charming feature of the garden in 

 this way. For the posts, locust saplings about eight inches in 

 diameter with the branches shortened back to five or six feet have 

 beeu used. These are covered with Halleana honeysuckle. Trum- 

 pet creeper, and Clematis paniculata, one over each of three 

 posts ; and Golden honeysuckle and Clematis JacJcmanni together 

 on the other. As the space for flowering shrubs is extremely 

 limited only the choicest are used — a Magnolia stellata and a 

 Red-Leaved Japanese maple in the front garden, and a Magnolia 

 JSoulangeana, a Magnolia conspicua, and a Japanese Snowball in 

 the back garden. The magnolias will in time become too large 

 for the garden but it will be many years, and the owner is content, 

 for the sake of their great beauty, to cut them out and replace 

 them with smaller ones when he must. 



In addition to all this planting, the lawn is filled with Crocuses, 

 Scillas, and Snowdrops, a very pleasing way of using them. 



This garden is the most effective, beautiful, and interesting in 

 the neighborhood, yet is made on a lot usually considered too 

 small to have gardening possibilities. It cost more than most 

 gardens of this size but it is complete ; nothing more need be 

 bought ; on the contrary the overflow of the natural increase is 

 brightening the gardens of neighbors and friends. This garden 

 has also privacy, which I hold is as desirable in a garden as it is 

 in the living rooms of the house. 



Suburban lots of one hundred and fifty feet frontage, and from 

 that to an acre or two acres in extent are popular sizes in this 

 ■counti-y. Such lots admit of a combination border made with 



