BORDER OF TULIPS ALONG EDGE OF SHRUBBERY 



Showing an effective and permanent way of using spring-flowering bulbs 



form and foliage, they are effective throughout the season. A group of 

 tuberous begonias is also introduced in this border, and of course has 

 to be planted every season. The border on the east side of the house is 

 quite shaded, and consequently is planted with shade-loving plants, prin- 

 cipally native ferns, with groups of native cypripediums, trilliums, 

 lilies-of-the-valley, tiarellas, and a large group of Lilium lancifolium at the 

 end of the border where there is the most light. The garden back of 

 the house is almost fifty feet square, but one side is perhaps sixty feet on 

 account of the shape of the house. This garden is completely inclosed 

 by a border, except where it is broken by the necessary path. This 

 border commences west of the kitchen porch steps, and follows the line of 

 the house until it reaches the division between the front and back gardens; 

 it then crosses to the hedge, which it follows, so that there is a flower bor- 

 der in front of all the hedge back of the line of the house. This border is 

 five feet wide except on the west side of the lot, where the entire space, 



