Book of Gardens 



51 



If one is for- 

 tunate enough 

 to have an old 

 house or a 

 new house in 

 the old style, 

 she can use an 

 ■ arched garden 

 gate, such as 

 this on the 

 place of Mr. 

 and Mrs. Vi- 

 vian Spencer 

 at Avondale. 

 R. I. And she 

 can plant 

 along the 

 fence a box or 

 box - barberry 

 edged border 

 filled ivith hel- 

 iotrope, laven- 

 der phlox and 

 pink scabiosa 

 mingled with 

 lilies and pur- 

 ple gladioli 



On this same 

 place the door- 

 way garden is 

 planted with a 

 freedom rem- 

 iniscent of 

 English cot- 

 tage gardens. 

 There are an- 

 nuals growing 

 in tangled 

 masses — yel- 

 low and or- 

 ange calendu- 

 las, flame - col- 

 ored snapdrag- 

 ons, richly 

 tinted zinnias 

 and bronze 

 dahlias — all 

 intermingled, 

 with here and 

 there an en- 

 livening touch 

 of violet blue 

 Salvia farina- 

 cea 



FLOWERS for the GARDEN GATE -TWO 

 PLANTING SUGGESTIONS }or SIMPLE PLACES 



MARIAN C. COFFIN, Landscape Architec 



