November, 1907 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



191 



Chinese peony: i, two Duke of Wellington; 2, five festiva maxima; 3, two festiva alba; 

 4, two La Tulipe; 5, two Marie Lemoine; 6, two Queen Victoria; 7, two Beaute Francaise; 8, 

 two Duchess de Nemours; 9, two grandiflora carnea; 10, Mme. Ducel; 11, two Mons. Jules 

 Elie; 12, two gigantea; 13, two Mme.de Verneville; 14, two Modele de Perfection; 15, two 

 Marie Stuart; 16, two Modeste Guerin; i7,twoHumei, 18, two rosea elegans; io,Delachei; 20, 

 four A. Verschaffelt; 21, four Felix Crousse; 22, four rubra triumphans; 23, four Meissonier; 

 24, four rubra superba. Paonia officinalis: 25, two rubra flore-pleno; 26, two rosea flore-pleno; 

 27, two alba mutabilis. 28, two Pozonia lenuifolia var. flore-pleno. Japan tree peony: 29, one 

 Adelaide; 30, one Caroline; 31, one Cornelia; 32, one Nigricans", 33, one Rossini. 34, ten 

 larkspur (Delphinium jormosum); 35, twelve Oriental poppy (Pa paver orienlalis); 36, two Japan 

 barberry (Berberis Tkunbergi); 37, four weigela (Diervilla florida); 38, five lilac (Syringa vul- 

 garis); 39, six mock orange (Philadelphits coronarius); ^^one&TaViaiAcanlhopanax penlaphylla). 



Additional planting costing $175. 0, four sugar maples (Acer sacckarum); a, five purple 

 fringe (Rhus Cotinus); b, five white fringe (Chionanthus Virginica): f,four rhodotypus (Rhodo- 

 typus kerrioides); d, three golden bell (Forsythia suspensa); c, one common barberry (Berberis 

 vulgaris); /,one Tartarian honeysuckle (Lonicera Tartarica). Cost of hedge about $50. 



An old-fashioned peony garden for $75 



spend must sacrifice something if he wants to have a place that will 

 be more attractive than the average home during the season when 

 flowers are most appreciated by his family. 



3. A PEONY GARDEN FOR $75 



Peonies make a delightful hobby. They have larger flowers 

 than roses, last quite as long as common roses, are attractive 

 even when out of bloom and have few insect enemies. They 

 are costly, compared with other perennials, can be best planted in 

 September and require three years to reach perfection, but they 

 are extremely long-lived and require very little care. The peony 

 is a formal plant and looks its best in formal gardens. Therefore 

 such hedging as is here indicated would add greatly to the beauty 

 of the place, but this would cost about $50 extra. 



This plan allows thirty-three varieties of peonies, including 

 several tree peonies. The letters a, b, c, d indicate how you could 

 cut off the garden from public view by planting tall shrubs. This 

 would cost $17.50 extra. The rest of the planting is shrubbery to 

 make the place attractive during the rest of the year. 



This plan is well adapted to a family which goes away about 

 the middle of June for a long summer vacation, as the peonies re- 

 quire no more summer care than shrubbery. 



4. AN EVERGREEN GARDEN FOR $IOO 



The great advantage of an evergreen garden is that it is 

 attractive all the year round, especially in winter when it furnishes 

 a delightful outdoor playground for children. Also it requires a 

 minimum of care after planting. 



Since we must pay for everything in this world, we must expect 



that there are rather severe limitations for such a project. Ever- 

 greens are the costliest of all plants, the slowest growing and 

 the most sensitive to soft coal smoke. They are alwavs formal in 

 their young stage and therefore they are appropriate for a formal 

 garden. 



I should not be willing to have a seat in this formal garden. 

 A better place to read or lounge is just outside at the place indicated. 

 The object of a formal garden is to give one a sort of aesthetic 

 tonic. It is like reading Cotton Mather, or communing with 

 your ancestors or visiting a temple. We need a sort of spiritual 

 bath every day. Some get it by reading history or Plato. The 

 formal garden also helps us to escape from the century we live in. 



A formal garden ought to be organically connected with the 

 house or else shut off from the landscape by tall shrubbery. It 

 would cost about $50 more to do this and to provide other 

 shrubbery as indicated on the plan. 





NO. OF 

 PLANTS 



COMMON NAME 



STANDARD AND 

 TRADE NAMES 



HEIGHT 



(in feet) 



COLOR 



SHAPE 



Hedge 



460 



I 

 4 

 4 

 8 



4 



4 

 64 



I 



I 



I 

 I 



I 



I 

 I 



I 



Boxwood 



Arborvitse 



Irish juniper 



Japanese cypress. 



Japanese cypress. 



Mountain spurge . 

 Japanese cypress - 



Hemlock 



Red cedar 



Siberia arborvita? 



Koster's cedar.. . 



Austrian pine 



White spruce 



Oriental spruce... 

 Hinoki cypress — 

 Sawara cypress.. . 



Japanese barberry 



Buxus sempcrvirens, var. 



2 



20 



4 

 20 



8 



6 



x 



6 



6 

 40 

 20 



5 



40 



40 

 60 

 40 

 20 



Dark green 

 Dark green 

 Light green 



Blue 



Bronze 



Dark green 



Dark green 

 Dark green 



Dark green 

 Dark green 

 Dark green 



Bluish green 



Dark green 



Silvery blue 

 Dark green 

 Light green 

 Light blue 



Round. 



I 



Taxus baccata, var. ad- 



Columnar 



3 



Thuya oricntalis\ var. 

 Sieboldi, .... ... 



Juniperus communis, var. 



Columnar 

 Columnar 



4 

 5 



Chamcecyparis sphcer- 

 oides, var. cricoid?* 

 {Retinispora ericoides) 



Chamcecyparis obtusa . 



Conical 



Bush 



6 



8 

 9 

 10 



Pachysandra terminalis. . 



Chamacy paris obtusa . 



var. com pacta 



J unipcris V irginiana . . . 

 Thuya occidentalis, var. 



Creeper 



Bush 



Pyramidal 



Columnar 

 Columnar 



1 1 



Juniperus V irginiana. 



Spreading 



12 



Pinus Laricio., var. A u- 



Round 



13 

 14 



16 



17 





Pyramidal 







Cha mcecy paris obtusa — 



Chamcecyparis pisijera 



var. squarrosa 



Pyramidal 



Conical 



An evergreen garden costing $100. To plant the unmarked, deciduous trees 

 and shrubs will cost about $50 additional. 



