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strong color was silhouetted against the green of 

 grass and shrub. It is the use of this rich color 

 all alone amid the green which makes the very 

 uniformity of the effect so splendid. When such 

 single effects follow one another month by month, 

 the flower succession is quite wonderful. 



In selecting flowers for such individual effects in 

 connection with shrubbery, great care ought to be 

 taken to make the plants really count. Plants 

 with vivid coloring like Lychnis, Orange Milk- 

 weed, and Tiger Lilies are good; plants with a 

 shrubby habit like Baptista australis, the Blue 

 Indigo, and Buddlea variabilis, the Butterfly 

 Flower, and Careopteris mastacanthus, the Blue 

 Spiraea, are excellent; and plants that adapt 

 themselves easily to naturalization like Daffodils 

 and Mertensias, like Meadow Rues and Snake- 

 roots, like Asters and Joe Pye Weed and Golden- 

 rods, are very effective. 



In the borders of the evergreen walk, the per- 

 pendicular line?, are gained through the use of 

 Retinisporas. The emphasis upon this one variety 

 gives the path a satisfying stability while the few 

 Pines and Hemlocks that are scattered at the back 

 of the borders relieve the possibility of any mo- 

 notony. I had hitherto considered that Retini- 



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