26 HOME FRUIT GROWER 



There will still be room for a few plants whose sole use is their 

 beauty, even in this utilitarian garden. I have chosen about a dozen 

 shrubs, each for some special merit and placed for some specific pur- 

 pose. Little garden pictures are framed from the living-room, and the 

 street, so strangers need not know that behind the house all is dedi- 

 cated to our food supply. To hide the little flower garden from the 

 direct view from the street I find fragrant Honeysuckle (Lonicera frag- 

 rantissima), a shrub with nearly evergreen foliage, effective for this 

 latitude. The early fragrant blossoms are a second distinction. With 

 it are low plants of the shrubby evergreen Bittersweet (Euonymus 

 radicans vegetd). This forms a big vine on the big outside chimney. 

 When loaded with fruit in Winter it rivals the classic Holly. 



A red and a white Weigela give flower masses in June and heavy 

 foliage to late Autumn. An arching shrub emphasizes two corners 

 of the house. The view to the flower garden from the street in June 

 is framed by a mass of Deutzia. The flower garden is partly separated 

 from the lawn by a few flowering shrubs. For hybrid Roses I have two 

 big rugosa hybrids, and hope to cut big Tea Roses from them all 

 Summer. They will stand six feet high. The Korean Viburnum 

 (Viburnum Carlesii} I love as Trailing Arbutus grown to a large shrub. 

 Partly to shade one seat I have a pair of Rouen Lilacs (Syringa chinensis) , 

 red and white, the most graceful of the whole group, and over the other 

 seat a white and a dark purple common Lilac trained high. In this 

 way I finally chose the following flowering shrubs (numbers on the 

 left refer to the plan; those on the right to the numbers of specimens) : 



1. Fragrant Honeysuckle (Lonicera fragrantissima) 4 



2. White Weigela (Diervilla hybrida Candida) i. 

 2a. Red Weigela (Diervilla hybrida, Eva Rathke) I. 



3. Pink slender Deutzia (Deutzia rosed) -2. 



4. Lemoine's Deutzia (Deutzia Lemoinei) i. 



5. Hybrid Goldenbell (Forsythia intermedia) i. 



6. Lemoine's Mock Orange (Philadelphus Lemoinei) i. 



7. Double pink (Rosa rugosa, Conradi F. Meyer) 2. 

 Double white (Rosa rugosa, Sir Thomas Lipton) 2. 



8. Korean Viburnum (Viburnum Carlesii) i. 



9. Summer Lilac (Buddleia Davidii) i. 



10. White Rouen Lilac (Syringa chinensis alba) i. 

 Red Rouen Lilac (Syringa chinensis sangeana) i. 



11. Charles X. and Marie LeGraye (Syringa vulgaris)2. 



12. Shrubby Evergreen Bittersweet (Euonymus radicans vegeta) 8. 



The little flower garden is another admission that my make-up 

 demands more than food supply about the home. Again I am restricted 

 in area and in choice, so I have selected about 2o of the best perennials 

 for the permanent hardy border, from 5 to 10 of each. This is the 

 character of the test: 1, Absolute hardiness at all times; 2, Long 

 life without annual shifting; 3, Resistance to drought and disease; 

 4, 'Ease of culture:- 5, Non-spreading roots; 6, Free and long-con- 



