158 MY GROWING GARDEN 



big buds, and the great white queen, Druschki (my 

 convenient contraction for Frau Karl Druschki), is 

 showing superb flowers. Even the General Jacq. 

 gives us once in a while a crimson surprise. 



Shrubs that did their blooming early have put 

 in the summer making growth for next year, and 

 now they show it in stem and foliage. I ought to 

 trim off the greened heads of the so-called "Snow- 

 ball" hydrangea, but I rather like to see them, and 

 I altogether like the great oak-leaves of Hydrangea 

 quercifolia, a shrub not yet big enough to bloom 

 much, but most distinct in its leafage. I have 

 associated all the rarer hydrangeas in one vicinity, 

 each as points in one of the vista-pictures I am 

 working for and gradually seeing bloom and leaf 

 into life. As this month witnesses the beginning of 

 the sometimes slow and always interesting change 

 of foliage colors that precedes the clearing of bough 

 and twig for winter's blasts, I have opportunity 

 to see how the autumn colors fit the picture. 



It is unfortunate that more consideration is not 

 given to the effects that may be obtained by plant- 

 ing trees and shrubs with thought for their color 

 values the whole year round. That it is done in 

 some cases is usually because one of the greater 

 workers with nature's paints Olmsted, Manning 

 or some other of the few that know and use their 



