TREES AND SHRUBS FOR THE HOME GROUNDS 



441 



blooming in the early spring and two later at intervals 

 of a few weeks to keep them from hiding the house. 

 During the winter the English sparrows enjoy picking 

 off the blossom buds. In front of these are deutzia 

 gracilis, with the most graceful, delicate and fragrant 

 of white waxy blooms. To the left of the forsythias 

 round the corner of the porch is a background of col- 

 lutea arborescens in front of which are red and white 

 tartarian honeysuckle. The colluteas grow as fast as 

 the honeysuckles and bloom nearly all summer, the blos- 

 soms being followed by large swollen seed pods. The 

 single bush in the lawn, a few feet from the honeysuckle, 

 is Berberis neubertii, the holly leaved barberry. This helps 

 to form the background to screen the back walk from view. 

 Figures 2, 3 and 4 show this section at different times. 



taken out and replaced by Eva Rathka wiegelia, a late 

 bloomer with deep red flowers. All of these plants 

 should be pruned in spring as soon as they have bloomed. 



The hydrangeas, shown in Figure 4, grew to be eight 

 feet high, covered with hundreds of immense white 

 blooms turning pink when cool nights came in Septem- 

 ber and October. The blooms come on new growth of. 

 the same year, so early each spring the last year's growth 

 must be cut back to short spurs of two or four buds. 

 To the right of these is a bed of perennial phlox. These 

 were taken out later and replaced by such shrubs as 

 abelia, hydrangea hortensis and dwarf philadelphus. 

 There is a hedge of California privet just outside 

 these beds. 



In front and just to the south, extending into the 



THE GARAGE AND PERGOLA 



Figure 8. The effective setting of the garage, shown in the Summer of 1910. The pergola was built in the Spring of 1909 and the wisteria 

 planted then. The end plants are Japanese wisteria and the center ones are native American wisteria. (See also Figures 9 and 10.) The 

 vines on each side of the garage door (facing east) are matrimony vines. They are supported by wires running from the base board to beneath 

 the eaves and then across above the door. The little evergreens in front of the pergola were planted on Arbor Day, 1909, to form a wind brake 

 against the cold northwest winter winds. (See Figure 12, five years later.) The one nearest the camera is a Colorado blue spruce which devel- 

 oped into an unusually beautiful specimen, admired as much as any other single tree or shrub on the place. The automobile drive is between 

 the pergola and the evergreens. At the left of the cement walk leading to the back porch, but not shown here, is the corner planted to native 

 trees and shrubs, the other side of which is shown in Figure 14. 



At the right of the front porch is a group of weigelia. 

 In front of the weigelia are Van Houttei spirea, the 

 most graceful of all the spireas, and around to the right 

 are Thimberg spirea plants. This is the earliest spirea 

 to bloom in the spring. In fact, it has such a nervous 

 disposition that a few days of winter sunshine will cause 

 it to send out scattering blooms any time between Novem- 

 ber and April. This habit makes it unsatisfactory be- 

 cause it seldom has a full bloom in spring. The Van 

 Houttei in full bloom is shown in Figure 7. To the 

 right, around the corner of the porch, are Eva Rathka 

 wiegelia and two plants of very slender and beautiful 

 philadelphus, or mock orange, which replaced two plants 

 of European euonymous. These were not satisfactory 

 because they bloomed so sparingly, thus making no show 

 of their strikingly handsome seed pods, so they were 



lawn, are the spiny but graceful Japanese barberry 

 bushes. In a few years these little fellows developed 

 into stately graceful specimens eight feet high, an un- 

 usual size. In the spring every shoot has a row of tassel- 

 like yellow flowers hanging from the under side, and 

 every flower has its honey bee. Each flower is followed 

 by a slender berry which turns bright red in the fall and 

 gives color and cheer to the plants all winter. The many 

 rows of small yellow-green blooms on these make the 

 honey bees happy for a couple of weeks in spring and 

 the bright red berries during the late fall and winter add 

 a dash of lively color to brighten up the sleeping bushes. 

 The vine on the front of the porch is clematis. The 

 top all kills down each winter, so it does not show in 

 Figure 3, taken the previous May. The two "alligators" 

 climbing over the porch railing at the right, shown in 



