BALANCE IN THE GARDEN 



masses. Thus, in the illustration facing page 68, 

 each of the large flower masses of baby's breath 

 (Gypsophila elegans) — consisting of the bloom of 

 but a single well-developed plant — is repeated 

 in every instance in four corresponding positions 

 in this garden. There was too much gypsophila 

 in bloom at once when this picture was made, 

 but because some was double the effect was not as 

 monotonous as the photograph would make out. 

 In a fine garden in Saginaw, Michigan, designed 

 and planted by Mr. Charles A. Piatt, balance is 

 preserved and emphasized in striking fashion by 

 the use of the plantain lily (Funkia Sieboldii, or 

 grandiflora), with its shining yellow-green leaves. 

 Masses of this formal plant are here used as an 

 effective foreground for a single fine specimen 

 bush, not very tall, of Japan snowball (Viburnum 

 plicatum). The poker flower {Tritoma Pfitzeri) is 

 also used in this garden to carry the eye from 

 point to corresponding point; and speaking of 

 tritoma, which Mr. Piatt in this garden associates 

 with iris, let me mention again that dehghtful 

 ageratum, as I lately saw it, used below tritoma. 

 The tritoma must have been one of the newer 

 varieties, of an unusual tone of intense salmony- 

 orange, and while the ageratum would seem too 



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