May, 1919 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



169 



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degree variety in which each end brick has to be 

 cut at the required angle. 



In deciding on the widtn of a brick walk of 

 any type it is well to lay out a trial piece of walk 

 to ascertain what width will best meet the re- 

 quirements of the brick used. By so doing a 

 great deal of time is often saved and unnecessary 

 cutting of the brick avoided. 



The joints in a brick walk can be either filled 

 with cement or sand. If cement is used great 

 care should be taken to keep the cement from 





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being smeared over the 

 surface of the brick. A neat 

 way of laying a cement 

 jointed brick walk is to lay 

 it by the method known as 



□ "push joint." The founda- 



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allowed to harden, then 

 JBKoken 5tone walk, of instead of the sand 

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BEOKCN 5TOME W0J< OF 

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ment is spread over 

 the surface and while 

 this is soft the bricks are pushed over it in 

 such a way that when the brick is brought to 

 the required position it has picked up just enough 

 mortar to fill the joint. This makes a very ser- 

 viceable, substantial walk and one from which 

 the snow can be shoveled with no fear of disturb- 

 ing the brick as is not always the case in a sand 

 jointed walk. 



My Garden of Desire 



MARGUERITE HEY KELLY *?%*■ 



WHEN I found I was to have my own 

 home and hence my own garden my 

 interest knew no bounds — and one 

 entire winter was spent over garden 

 plans of my own drawing; dreaming before the 

 open fire of the garden that was to be. 



All my life I had wanted a garden of my own — 

 not just a plot of earth in which to have a few 

 plants, but a garden that would express my mean- 

 ing of the word — one that would be bright and 

 pleasant in the day time and cool and perfumed 

 in the moonlight — a garden picture framed within 

 a hedge of Privet. 



A/TY GARDEN is one hundred feet long by 

 ■L'-l thirty feet wide with a gravel walk edged 

 with red brick upended running the full length 

 and terminating at the rear in a small shrub 



garden, the whole being entirely enclosed in 

 clipped privet hedges. Each entrance has a 

 white arch and a gate over which pale yellow 

 and pink climbing roses grow. To give width 

 to the garden, circles were laid in the walks at 

 equal distances from the entrances, with a bird 

 bath as a central feature in each — and paths 

 deviating from them leading to some simple 

 object of interest such as a white garden seat, a 

 good view of the garden — or up the terrace to the 

 porch. Paths which lead nowhere are excuse- 

 less. 



The garden beds are laid out on each side of 

 the walk, with no grass strips intervening, this 

 was done to allow the flowers to grow out over 

 the walk in places — and to do away with too 

 long a line that might appear conventional. 

 I prefer a balanced planting effect— as I feel that 



same need in the garden for equal proportions 

 as on an old fashioned mantle shelf with a candle- 

 stick at each end. 



The house and garden are close together, the 

 drawing room opens on the porch, whose brick 

 steps in turn lead down a grass terrace directly 

 into the garden. If a garden is to be an "outside 

 living room" it must be close to the house. 



TN CHOOSING my flowers I wanted the simple 

 ■*■ ones of our grandmothers' days — that come 

 back every year and repay our attention with a 

 wealth of bloom. From early spring when the 

 early blue Phlox (P. divaricata or canadensis) 

 come mingled with bronze Tulips, Daffodils, and 

 blue and white Scilla until autumn finds the 

 garden gay with pinkish purple and lavender 

 hardy Asters, Eupatorium, yellow Chrysanthe- 



The flower beds of this Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, garden extend on each side of a central walk, no grass edge, and the plants spread over at will. The ample masses give a proper sense of 



richness.' The garden, while close to the house, is separated by an enclosing hedge that "frames" the picture 



