THE ORNAMENTAL EVERGREENS 



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drangeas, the paniculata grandiflora variety, with their 

 timmense mass of blooms flowering in August and 

 throughout the fall. 



Behind these flowering shrubs are dahlias in a solid 

 wall. You may think that they would be blanked from 

 sight by the shrubs, but their dark green foliage, on the 

 contrary, forms a veritable bank or screen behind the 

 shrubs, while the wonderful blooms, from August to 

 December, which line the top of that wall of dahlias are 

 a marvel to the eye, no less ! Thev also serve as an f- 



GOLDEX BIOTA 



This is exceedingly atlrac*ive. It looks like a liig golden yelluvv egg 

 set on end and its leaf fronds all stick out edgewise like the leaves 

 of a book. 



fective screen to the fruit and vegetable garden back 

 of them, which, with its tiny greenhouse and pergola 

 showing above the top of the dahlia hedge is suggestive 

 of solid comfort and good cheer to add to the more 

 aesthetic joys of the flowers. 



It will be noted that many old favorites seem to have 

 been omitted from this planting. No shrubbery is com- 

 plete without the old-fashioned lilacs and sweet syringias, 

 to say nothing of the rhododendrons so often most mis- 

 takenly planted in the sun. They are, however, not in 

 the general shrubbery, for we have a better place for 

 them. Lilacs should be in a clump by themselves, a land- 

 mark, an emphasis for some such important details as 

 a turn in the drive and they were here so used. Sweet 

 syringia has such a habit of growing so large as to al- 

 most require a bed to itself, and its striking beauty 

 should be set off' apart for the world to see. In this 

 planting there are three of them, forming the principal 



shrubs, almost the only shrubs, in the circular bed which 

 forms the round turn of the drive. Seen down the curve 

 of the driveway the masses of cream-white blooms of 

 th.ose syringias are in themselves an invitation to drive 

 in, if only for the pleasure of looking at them, and their 

 fragrant perfume is a snare for many an unbeliever, 

 who, passing by, is "overtaken unawares" and converted 

 into a rabid gardenist forthwith. 



As for the rhododendrons, an ideal place for them was 

 found along the northwest wall of the studio, where a 

 fieldstone chimney rose under the shade of the big forest 

 oaks and maples left standing when the lot was cleared. 

 Also six English ivy plants set close to the chimney base, 

 covered it in two years' time about twelve feet up from 

 the ground, and around the base were massed half a 

 dozen big rhododendrons whose glossy dark green leaves 

 and purple, white and maroon blossoms are a veritable 

 bank of color in the springtime. 



in the northwest angle of the studio, where, because of 

 the forest trees the sun never shines except for a brief 



KOSTEK'S HLUl'; SPRUCF. 



Tliis is one nf the most ornamental evergreens planted. A specimen this 

 size will cost about $25, while the small ones are worth $1.50. 



hour at high noon, we found a home for two hemlocks 

 and a balsam fir, the latter in the angle as being the more 

 pyramidal tree. Both of these species do well in the 

 sun also, but where you have shade or partial sunlight 

 they will get on quite as well, so that they are the best 

 selection for such places, leaving the sunloving spruces 

 and exotics for the east and south fronts of your build- 

 ing. The firs and hemlocks grow large, so beware of 

 planting them under windows or in small beds and bor- 

 ders. Their beautiful feathery, fronded foliage and 



