December, 19 1-1 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



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through, giving the effect of 

 bay trees for use in the courts 

 and in formal work. 



To meet the requirement of 

 a long strip of edging, or 

 hedge, a foot high and through 

 Eugenia apiculata has been 

 raised and shifted to 18 inch 

 boxes. A tee, or fence of two 

 4 foot laths, a foot high was 

 nailed across the top of the 

 box and on this the Eugenia 

 has been trained and clipped 

 to shape. The boxes are 

 buried in the ground with the 

 tees butted end to end thus 

 giving a perfect line of hedge. 

 The deep glossy green leaves 

 with myrtle like flowers and 

 dark red berries following 

 make a valuable evergreen 

 shrub. 



Another clever conception 

 in the many last minute arrangements is 

 for fences and walls. Boxes 4x4 feet and 

 if inches deep have been filled with earth, 

 topped off with moss and over this one inch 

 mesh wire was nailed. In these Mesembry- 

 anthemum spectabilis has been grown to a 

 solid mat-like covering. These boxes will 

 be fastened upright one above the other like 

 slabs. One of these fences will be 1,000 

 feet long and 20 feet high. Occasional 

 hosing maintains the succulent growth. 

 The gray color resembles stone and the 

 bright red flowers dazzle in the sun. 



Large palms are moved by the trainload to give established effects to the Exposition grounds 



Japan has doubled its allotment of land 

 and will follow the characteristic tea garden, 

 with water falls, running water among 

 stepping stones and the strange dwarf 

 shrubbery. A rare exhibit of Iris is 

 promised. 



Holland will show a constant bloom of 

 bulbs with a miniature reproduction of a 

 bulb farm with native soil. 



The Palace of Horticulture covers five 

 acres. It is surmounted by a dome 160 

 feet high and 150 in diameter; the largest 

 glass dome in the world. 



The Court of Abundance is 

 distinguished by full bearing 

 orange trees. Magnolias and 

 other richly scented trees are 

 included. The Court of 

 Flowers will be tropical in 

 effect, including azaleas and 

 ericas. 



In the Court of Four Sea- 

 sons there will be water effects 

 and a blaze of colors in small 

 plants and large, such as 

 Bougainvillea Brazilensis and 

 laterita trained on uprights 15 

 feet high. Pillar roses and 

 rhododendron will also be 

 massed here. 



There must be luxury of 

 bloom at all periods during 

 the period of the exposition 

 and as fast as one display is 

 finished, that feature will be 

 taken out- and another 

 brought in from the nursery. The plants 

 being all growryah boxes ready for removal. 

 Pansies, California poppies, begonias, fuch- 

 sias eight feet high, likewise heliotrope, 

 and hydrangeas with ten foot spread 

 are used in abundance. There will be dis- 

 plays by many trade exhibitors from the 

 east and from abroad. One feature of 

 interest lies in the offer of an award of 

 $1,000 for the best new seeding rose for 

 which entries have already been made by 

 foreign as well as domestic growers; the 

 rose gardens occupy a vast area. 



A Three-Year Old Garden of Quick Growers 



By A. L. Bright, 



Pennsvl- 



A PICTORIAL AND PRACTICAL ANSWER TO THE GOOD 

 ADVICE THAT WE USE SLOW GROWING, AND WAIT! 



THIS is a practical presentation of 

 a successful heresy! Of course, 

 it is sound advice that we ought 

 to plant the slow-growing, per- 

 manent trees — beech, elm, and oak — 

 rather than the temporizing transient kind 

 of thing that quickly develops and equally 

 quickly begins to get ragged or decay. But 

 the question confronting most of us is unfor- 

 tunately: What can be done at once for 

 pictorial effects in the very near future? 

 And I submit the accompanying pho- 

 tographs as justification for what I have 

 done. 



This garden of mine is only three years 

 old — not a tree or shrub on the ground 

 before the building of the house. I like 

 yew hedges and spreading beeches as well 

 as most people, but necessity forced me to 

 fall back on the despised privet, and poplar, 

 and rambler roses. 



One of Mr. Wilhelm Miller's excellent 

 articles in an earlier issue of The Garden 

 Magazine attracted my attention. His 

 acquaintance with English as well as 

 American horticulture makes his advice 



the more valued — "I stand for better 

 gardens," he succinctly says — "Surely we 

 have need of a prophet!" In the article 

 to which I refer he strongly advocates the 

 planting of slow growing trees only — and on 

 the other hand entirely condemns "as 

 trash" such old friends amongst the quick 

 growers as willows, poplars, and privet. 



I have spent more than one summer in 

 wandering through the gardens of Surrey 

 and Kent and have often been a guest in 

 English homes, and I think I can appreciate 

 the necessity, with others, for the grandeur 

 and dignity of slow growing trees in our 

 American surroundings. I also feel as 

 acutely as Mr. Miller the want of the beauti- 

 ful settings and backgrounds one sees in 

 England, such as time alone can achieve 

 in a landscape. 



Still, it appears to me, there is a very- 

 distinct place in the life of many new 

 American gardens for just these despised 

 quick growing trees and shrubs; and which 

 to ignore, is to discourage many an amateur 

 gardener who is unacquainted with the 

 making of beautiful surroundings except 



through such helpful sources as The 

 Garden Magazine. 



But isn't Mr. Miller a trifle drastic? 

 "Wipe it all out," he greatly argues and 

 start afresh and this time without hamper- 

 ing ideas by Time and Space. For why 

 not plant cedars and oaks — and wait! 

 The privet hedge goes by the board — why 

 not plant a hemlock hedge, and wait again? 

 To be sure in some latitudes the hemlock 

 dies out — but could it not, we are asked 

 cheerfully, be replaced by a planting of 

 young growth around the roots? 



Now he takes for granted two things — 

 that we are all rich — and that we can all 

 wait — while the very contrary is true of 

 most American families. 



The making of gardens is of a piece with 

 all the rest of American life. We want it 

 now or we don't want it at all! Our rich 

 men with large estates die — the place is 

 sold — and often cut up into . building lots 

 by the encroachments of a city suburb. 

 It is not entailed as in England to the eldest 

 son who puts another wing to the Eliza- 

 bethan Manor, enlarges the orangery and 



