A GARDEN NOTE-BOOK 



of light thrown upon their use and beauty — this 

 has been an experience to remember and to share 

 with others. The shrubs in question stand in an 

 irregular planting against the eastern wall of the 

 house. At the north end of the wall is the main 

 door of the house, very insignificant, as in houses 

 of the quieter English type. Such doors are used 

 only for incoming and outgoing; why should they 

 be important? South of the door are the five 

 muUioned lights of a music-room window, then 

 two open arches at the end of a loggia. The 

 length of this wall is perhaps forty-five feet. 

 Here is its planting to be most warmly com- 

 mended to those to whom a succession of white 

 and mauve bloom may be valuable. And, first, 

 against the open arches, as a screen from the 

 near-by street, stands a glorious tree, Philadelphtis 

 grandiflorus, an ancient mock orange, brought 

 twelve years ago from a near-by village, a tree 

 some forty years old and twenty feet high. Its 

 twisting stems are beautiful when hung with ice 

 in winter, when snow and ice are its garland; and 

 in June, when other garlands of a whiteness, 

 wannth, and fragrance beyond description crown 

 its branches, it is a marvel of beauty. Below this 

 white tree are other youjiger Philadelphus bushes, 



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