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POPULAR GARDENING. 



March, 



THE COMPLETE GARDEN.* 



III. 



BY A WELL KNOWN HORTICULTTKIST. 

 A LOOK INTO THE GARDEN. 



Having considered some of the chief prelim- 

 inaries in garden making, and before proceed- 

 ing to such others, as laying out the gar- 

 den, providing for the culture of special 

 classes of plants, etc. , 

 let us take a glance at 

 a carefully planned 

 garden in its entirety. 

 But few average gar- 

 dens are susceptible 

 of embracing every 

 desirable feature of 

 gardening,hence such 

 a glance should ena- 

 ble each one, as my 

 views unfold them- 

 selves.to more readily 

 determine what par- 

 ticular features could 

 be adopted with the 

 best advantages in 

 each respective case. 



A main puipose in 

 planning the gai'den 

 here represented was 

 to secure in one plot 

 a pleasing and con- 

 sistent arrangement 

 of a large number of 

 distinctive garden 

 elements. This plan 

 will also serve to show 

 what a very com- 

 plete garden a small 

 piece of ground (in 

 this case, four acres) 

 may be made to sup- 

 port. Almost every 

 class of useful and 

 ornamental growths, 

 hardy and tender, 

 have been given a 

 place. The plan is 

 characterized by a de- 

 gree of compactness 

 found necessary for 

 the introduction of so 

 great a variety of 

 growths on a com- 

 paratively small 

 area. Yet there is an 

 appearance of free- 

 dom in the arrange- 

 ment, together with 

 such an ample area of 

 open lawn, as to ex- 

 empt the plan from 

 the charge of being 

 unduly cramped. 



It must however be 

 admitted that where 

 measures of economy 

 do not specially force 

 themselves upon the 

 garden maker, this 

 plan, without any 

 material change of 

 parts, could cover 

 one-half as much more ground, say six acres, 

 and that to, with some decided general gains in 

 the appearance. In such a case, the open 

 lawn, for one thing, would be expanded to a 

 degree telling well (or that most desirable of 

 all garden qualities, namely, breadth and 

 openness, though the plan here reproduced is 

 not lacking in this respect. Of course with 

 increased area come increased expenses, a 

 fact of which we must never loose sight. 



A STROLL INTO MY GARDEN. 



Having given a birds-eye view of my four- 

 acre garden, let the reader accompany me in 

 an examination of its parts, then we wiU find 

 ourselves better qualified to take up and discuss 

 the further details of garden construction. 

 • Copyright, !887, by Popular Gardening Publishing Co. 



Entering by the smaller gateway through a 

 hedge of Honey Locust, which stands against 

 the street line, we first meet the Dwarf Ever- 

 greens ; an uncrowded mass to the right of the 

 walk, a few to the left and several clumps di- 

 rectly ahead, on and across the lawn. The 

 mass to the right extends to a point beyond 

 the carriage drive where it tm-ns towards the 



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THE COMPLETE GARDEN— A FOUR ACRE PLAT COMPRISING MANY DESIRABLE FEATURES. 



borders of goodly size seated on the gi-ass and 

 relieved by a backing of trees next to the 

 boundary. To the north of these lie some bold 

 masses of shrubs, constituting one of the most 

 striking parts of the grounds. Those shrubs 

 of a flowering character prevail in the parts 

 lying towards the street, whilst on the 

 rise of ground called Evergreen Knoll 

 evergreens in shrubs 

 and trees predomi- 

 nate. Shrubbery 

 Walk, a delightful 

 shrub-bordered grass 

 avenue some 1.5 feet 

 wide and extending 

 from near the veran- 

 da obliquely across 

 the grounds to the 

 right, easily attracts 

 the eye, with its rus- 

 tic arbor posing on 

 the knoU. 



Somewhat to the 

 rear of Evergreen 

 Knoll is seen a medley 

 of growths, and at 

 one point the eye 

 catches, between the 

 undergrowth of the 

 trees, a view of the 

 lakelet of fresh water 

 which lies towai'd the 

 farther end of the 

 ground. In an east- 

 erly direction from 

 the knoU a scene of 

 quite a different char- 

 acter is met with. 

 Here the eye falls on 

 sheets of glass with 

 formal flower beds 

 and primly shorn 

 evergreen trees. 



Partly in view be- 

 yond the greenhouses 

 is a Norway Spruce 

 hedge with ornamen- 

 tal turrets, and this 

 separates the so-called 

 pleasure grounds 

 from the fruit and 

 vegetable grounds to 

 the rear. 



Olie but half sees 

 the garden from the 

 veranda, however. As 

 the walks are for use, 

 let us use them. Tak- 

 ing the front one from 

 the veranda, and 

 starting southwest, 

 we pass between sev- 

 eral beds of bright 

 flowers, to Clematis 

 Arbor. Prom this 

 light arbor, spanning 

 the walk, may be had 

 the most extended 

 view of lawn to be 

 met in the garden. 

 Passing beyond the 

 arbor we reach the 



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barn, enlarging as it does so, and embracing 

 some of the stronger growing kinds of ever- 

 greens as well as some deciduous trees. To the 

 left of the foot gateway is a well defined bor- 

 der, containing a variety of shrubs and small 

 trees, evergreen and others in the background, 

 with a line of irregular width next to the 

 grass in which are growing some varieties of 

 border plants. The ai'ea between the entrances 

 and the house consists of lawn, with a sparse 

 scattering of shade trees and some flower beds. 

 Reaching the veranda, we find it fringed at 

 the roof's edge, and partly enclosed by various 

 climbing plants. From the slight elevation 

 here afforded, one secures a good prospect of 

 the garden as viewed across the lawn in almost 

 every direction. Towards the front are seen 



main borders of haidy flowers. Here you cannot 

 fail to find delight, if you, with the writer, are a 

 lover of that class of plants which exist indepen- 

 dent of the greenhouse, and embracing the ' 'old 

 fashioned flowers," which are fast becoming 

 new-fashioned. Beyond the left border is the 

 the Sub-Tropical Gfarden. This comprises an 

 arrangement of such hardy trees, plants and 

 grasses as possess striking foliage, and in several 

 parts Palms, etc. , from the greenhouses, with 

 the pots sunk for the summer in the earth. 



Returning to and foUowing the walk we 

 meet several large beds to the right, including 

 those containing Roses, Pceonias and Japanese 

 Maples. To the left of this west walk is a 

 narrow grove of ornamental trees. On the 

 other side of the large Rose bed is a less used 



