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In the planting of the grasses, to make the best 

 effect give the taller ones the outside row, letting 

 the low ones fall over the water, mirroring in 

 the surface below. One of the advantages in using 

 this is that it attracts birds and butterflies. Noth- 

 ing can attract the songsters quicker to your foun- 

 tain than this kind of surrounding. 



Occasionally, we find that instead of planting^ 

 beds are geometrically laid out to surround this, 

 the axis of the garden design. In cases like this 

 we have to depend upon the borders for effect. 

 These can be hedge-loving plants or they can be a 

 solid, low planting. Scotch heather is very pretty. 

 It should be grown in sunny places with moist sur- 

 roundings. Its racimes of dark rose pink petals, 

 lasting from July to September, make it very effec- 

 tive for this purpose. The Japanese Barberry can 

 also be included, nothing equals it in artistic value. 

 It requires but little pruning to keep it in shape, 

 while its fruit or berries, assuming rich brilliant 

 colors in the fall, are most effective when used for 

 a setting like this. 



If possible, try for flowers that have fragrance. 

 It adds so much to the effect to breathe in the sweet 

 odor as you sit watching the shading of the flowers,. 



