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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



The most interesting piece of rustic worK that has come to our attention this year 



built for about $1,000 — a small sum com- 

 pared with the comfort one can get out of it. 

 It is cheaper than some automobiles and 

 decidedly safer! 



The reader who desires a full account of 

 Mrs. Stewart's winter garden will find it in the 

 December number of Country Life in America. 



Garden Entrances and Exits 



Henry Maxwell, Connecticut 



ARE you satisfied with your garden en- 

 trances and exits? Are they as appro- 

 priate as the one shown at the top of page 233 ? 

 This picture will repay careful study, for it 

 shows an excellent transition from nature 

 to cultivation and back again — from garden 

 to wild garden. 



This exquisite example of gardening art 

 is taken from the estate of Colonel John 

 Thayer, Lancaster, Mass. 



A Charming Formal Garden 



EVERY year hundreds of pictures of 

 beautiful gardens come to the editors 

 of The Garden Magazine. The formal 

 garden shown on page 233 was so attractive 



that we sent a staff photographer from New 

 York to Salem, Mass., to get a picture of it 

 that would be suitable for a cover design in 

 color. Unfortunately the garden had been 

 allowed to run down so this was not possible. 



Evidently all the members of the editorial 

 staff valued this garden view highly, but 

 why? What principle is here involved that 

 every one may use? So accustomed are 

 people to judging instantly and instinctively 

 in matters of taste that we questioned one 

 another a long while before we were able to 

 offer any possible explanation of this pic- 

 ture's charm. Certainly it is not dependent 

 upon the use of rare and costly plants — nor 

 yet upon magnificent surroundings, for we 

 have many pictures that evince greater 

 wealth. What seems to you the merit of 

 this garden composition? 



We believe that the whole lesson of it is 

 that it shows how to frame a vista of natural 

 loveliness; that this garden might be less 

 interesting if nature were wholly shut out; 

 that the distant woods would prohably be 

 less interesting if seen in their entirety; and 

 that every one who designs a garden ought 

 to scrutinize the landscape carefully and say 



December, 1907 



to himself, "Which is the most beautiful 

 element of the offscape that I want to bring 

 into my daily life, by framing a living picture 

 of it in my garden" ? 



A good way to do this is to hold the hands 

 up vertically at each side of the face, thus 

 framing one part of the landscape after 

 another until you determine which is the part 

 that an artist would choose to paint. Then 

 mark on your garden plan the parts to be 

 screened and the parts to leave open. Finally 

 determine upon the trees, arch or other 

 device which you will use to frame the best 

 portion of the distant landscape. 



Vines Flat Against a Wall 



W. C. Woolworth, California 



I HAVE a Lantana at the corner of my 

 house which I wished to spread over 

 the two walls and flatten against them. I 

 nailed loops of cloth to the wall, rove a piece 

 of white grocer's twine through it, hitched 

 one end to a branch of the vine and the other 

 to an old horse shoe — not too heavy as the 

 vine is very fragile. I have several of these 

 slings in use and they slowly, gently and 

 continuously train the vine to the desired 

 position. See illustration on page, 237. 



The " Seaside Problem" Solved 



EVERYBODY knows that Southampton, 

 Long Island, is a second Newport and 

 everybody who has visited it has been struck 

 with wonder at the "treeless belt" on the 

 seashore where most of the fashionable 

 colony dwell. Hitherto it has been a tra- 

 dition that it is impossible to have a garden 

 in this wind-swept area. 



But the garden problem has been solved 

 with unexpected ease by Mrs. P. B. Wyckoff, 

 as is proved by the picture on page 233. 



The whole secret is the tall hedge that 

 protects the flowers from the ocean winds. 

 Right on the other side of that hedge the 

 ocean waves are dashing, and the spray 

 often settles upon the flowers. 



The one shrub that thrives amazingly in 



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One of the prettiest g&rden accessories brought to 

 our notice this year. See next page 



