34 MANUAL OF GARDENING 
The old-fashioned garden. 
Speaking of the old-fashioned garden recalls one of William 
Falconer’s excellent paragraphs (‘‘Gardening,” November 15, 
1897, p.75): “We trieditinSchenley Park thisyear. Weneeded 
a handy dumping ground, and hit on the head of a deep ravine 
between two woods; into it we dumped hundreds upon hun- 
dreds of wagon loads of rock and clay, filling it near to the top, 
then surfaced it with good soil. Here we planted some shrubs, 
and broadcast among them set out scarlet poppies, eschscholzias, 
dwarf nasturtiums, snapdragons, pansies, marigolds, and all 
manner of hardy herbaceous plants, having enough of each sort 
to make a mass of its kind and color, and the effect was fine. 
In the middle was a plantation of hundreds of clumps of Japan 
and German irises interplanted, thence succeeded by thousands 
of gladioli, and banded with montbretias, from which we had 
flowers till frost. The steep face of this hill was graded a lit- 
tle and a series of winding stone steps set into it, making the 
descent into the hollow quite easy; the stones were the rough 
uneven slabs secured in blasting the rocks when grading in other 
parts of the park, and both along outer edges of the steps 
and the sides of the upper walk a wide belt of moss pink was 
planted; and the banks all about were planted with shrubs, 
vines, wild roses, columbines, and other plants. More cameras 
and kodaks were leveled by visitors at this piece of gardening 
than at any other spot in the park, and still we had acres of 
painted summer beds.” 
Contents of the flower-borders. 
There is no prescribed rule as to what one should put into these 
informal flower-borders. Put in them the plants you like. 
Perhaps the greater part of them should be perennials that come 
up of themselves every spring, and that are hardy and reliable. 
Wild flowers are particularly effective. Every one knows that 
