Three parallel straight borders; the central one of dahlia Countess of Lonsdale, 

 snapdragons, gladioli and lemon verbena; side borders of sweet peas, carnations 

 or opium poppies, China asters and mignonette, edged with alyssum 



Two irregular borders in which chrysanthemums are the main display. In 

 the background sweet peas, larkspurs and hollyhocks maintain a succession of 

 bloom until the chrysanthemums are ready 



A Kaleidoscopic Series of Small Gardens— By John f. Johnston && 



HOW A VEGETABLE GARDEN DIVIDED INTO COMPARTMENTS BY ROWS OF 

 GRAPE VINES WAS TRANSFORMED IN ONE YEAR INTO A SERIES OF 

 THIRTEEN DISTINCT FLORAL PICTURES EACH HIDDEN FROM THE OTHER 



A SINGULAR circumstance enabled Mr. 

 Paul Dana to have at his summer home, 

 Dosoris, Long Island, a series of "surprise 

 gardens." He had decided to change an old 

 vegetable garden into a flower garden. This 

 vegetable garden was separated into thirteen 

 compartments each thirty feet wide and 

 from one hundred to a hundred and thirty 

 feet long by rows of grape vines, the foliage 

 of which was so dense that each compartment 

 was hidden from the other. This suggested 

 the idea of making each one of these compart- 

 ments a distinct landscape composition, so 

 that as a person drives or walks along, 

 he is struck by a succession of floral pic- 



Rough sketch of the kaleidoscopic series of gar- 

 dens. There are thirteen of them (although the 

 diagram shows only twelve). A long row of grapes 

 hides each garden from the next one 



tures, each as different as possible from the 

 other. 



Since the gardens were only made last year, 

 they naturally lack perfection of detail, be- 

 cause it is impossible to get a perfect lawn in 

 one year. Every garden ought to contain 

 some lawn, since a bit of green is needed to 

 rest the eve from the vivid colors of the flow- 

 ers. Nevertheless, the scheme as a whole has 

 received such favorable comment from visit- 

 ors that it seems worth while to show some 

 of the pictures and to raise the question 

 whether a garden of this kind is not more 

 interesting than one which can be taken in 

 at a single glance. 



Irregular borders of annuals selected for their vivid colors. Sunflowers and 

 cosmos at the back, scarlet sage burning in the middle and marigolds to make 

 the autumn yellow. Half circles'of heliotrope and cornflowe' 



A hardy border with a straight edge. This is composed chiefly of peren- 

 nialsjand the idea is to get^the utmost variety of color and form throughout the 

 season. iFewIof a kind arelused 



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