GETTING INTO THE GROUND 39 



These early March days, consequently, I have 

 been thinking out planting vistas, so that to the 

 nurserymen may go the lists of needed shrubs and 

 trees. 



I have found that it is easy enough to have the 

 spring and early summer burst of bloom, but not 

 so easy to see to it that some flowers are in sight 

 throughout the summer and the fall. 



The colors on the planting-palette are in several 

 height-forms also. There are yellows in taller 

 shrubs and in dwarf er spring-blooming bulbs; 

 there are shadings of pink in herbaceous plants, in 

 shrubs of varied form; and there is always white 

 for merging and combining, in bulb and plant and 

 shrub. Blue conies less easily, and must be placed 

 where it will fit; some dashes of scarlet are the 

 exclamation points. 



Then, too, there is form to consider. The 

 graceful deutzia is to be a fountain of white, while 

 the hollyhocks in the same vista are like blunted 

 spires, pointing upward in lemon or crimson or 

 pink. It is this need for consideration of the effect 

 that is most trouble and that brings the most 

 results. I began without the picture idea, and I 

 hid one shrub behind another, mixed colors regard- 

 lessly, planted according to the size of the nursery 

 plant or the root rather than the eventual spread, 



