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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



July, 1907 



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A Densely Shaded Garden 



MY CITY lot of 80 x 1 20 ft., is shadowed 

 on the east, north and west by a high 

 overhanging hedge designed to shut off from 

 view the neighbors' premises. This mixed 

 hedge of lilac, syringa, young elms and 

 maples, supports tangled masses of wild 

 grape and woodbine (Ampelopsis), and I. 

 consider it much more handsome than one 

 consisting of only a single variety of hedge- 

 plant. Its natural and unstudied appear- 

 ance appeals to the imagination and calls. 

 to mind the draped banks of a river. But — 

 this hedge restricts my gardening operations- 

 very materially. Only the middle part of 

 the back of the lot can be used for such 

 flowers as require sunlight and air for their 

 full development, and this includes practically 

 everything I grow. 



The flower border along the hedge on the 

 east facing the piazza where the family, 

 spends nearly all the summer hours was a. 

 continual eyesore. I had given up the 

 struggle trying to make anything grow there,, 

 and while awaiting my convenience to sod. 

 it over, it has grown to weeds, which throve 

 abundantly. On June 20th of last year I 

 thought out a new and daring plan, one 

 involving the risk of considerable loss. I 

 spaded the ground and set the bed with 

 white, and pink Canterbury bells, white fox- 

 glove, Shasta daisy, and pink cosmos all in 

 full bloom. Yes, cosmos in bloom in June.. 

 These plants were growing in the back, 

 garden in rows. I took up each plant with 

 a spading fork with whatever soil adhered, 

 to the roots and set them in the newly dug; 

 earth without watering as we had had a 

 shower the previous night. That border 

 presented a lightning transformation scene, 

 as magical in effect as Jonah's Gourd. The 

 plants never wilted in the slightest degree 

 but kept on growing and blooming even 

 better than those left undisturbed. Having, 

 attained their full vigor in the open sunlight, 

 the plants now had a store of vitality to draw 

 upon, and the partial shade was just right 

 to keep the blossoms at their best, as they 

 lasted longer in better condition than others 

 that grew in full sunlight. I had tried these 

 varieties in that bed other years, but had 

 always started them early in the spring. 

 They had pined and dwindled along, furnish- 

 ing a dismal sight all summer. 



On this discovery of the adaptability of 

 these plants I set out all those remaining 

 in the rows among the perennials whose 

 season of bloom was past or had not yet 



