THE AMATEUR GARDEN 



moment when the visitor may be said to be fully 

 received. On the other hand, if the approach is 

 a returning one from the rear of the entire 

 campus, where stands the institution's only 

 other building, a large tall-towered gymnasium, 

 also of red brick, these superlative effects 

 show out across an open grassy distance of from 

 two hundred to three hundred feet. 



Wherefore and here at last we venture to 

 bring names of things and their places together 

 at the fronts of the northernmost and south- 

 ernmost of these three "Halls" we set favorite 

 varieties of white-flowering spireas (Thunbergia, 

 sorbif olia, arguta, Van Houttei),i}ie pearl-bush (ex~ 

 ochorda), pink diervillas, and flowering-almonds. 

 After these, on the southern side of the south- 

 ernmost building, for example, followed lilacs, 

 white and purple, against the masonry, the 

 white against the red brick, the lilac tint 

 well away from it, with tamarisk and kerria 

 outside, abreast of them, and then pink and red 

 spireas (Bumaldi and its dwarf variety, An- 

 thony Water er). On the other side of the same 

 house we set deutzias (scabra against the brick- 



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