Four Plans for a 100x150 Ft. Lot-By f. c. Leibie 



New 

 , York 



THE TENTH OF A SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THE "CHEAPEST GARDENS FOR THE SMALLEST 

 LOTS," EACH OF WHICH GIVES FOUR SOLUTIONS COSTING $25, $50, $75, and $100, RESPECTIVELY 



i. Three alternate-leaved dogwood (Cornus allernijolia). 



2. Three flowering dogwood {Cornus florida). 



3. One red-flowering dogwood {Cornus florida, var. rubra). 



4. Three Siberian dogwood {Cornus alba, var. Sibirica). 



5. Three Cornelian cherry {Cornus mas). 



6. Three red osier dogwood {Cornus slolonijera). 



7. Three European red osier dogwood {Cornus sanguinea). 



8. Three spreading cornel {Cornus slolonijera, var. aurca). 



9. Two Japanese barberry (Berberis Thunbergii). 



10. Three weigela (Diervilla florida, var. rubra). 



11. One weigela {Diervilla kybrida, var. Eva Rathke). 



12. Three buttonball tree {Plaianus occidentalis). 



13. Three golden bell (Forsylhia suspensa). 



14. One blue spirea (Caryopleris maslacanthus). 



If only $25 is to be expended, buy shrubs 



1. Three sugar maple {Acer saccharum). 



2. Two American linden {TUia Americana). 



3. One white birch (Belula alba, var. Sibirica). 



4. Two Japanese barberry {Berberis Thunbergii). 



5. Three kerria {Kerria Japonica). 



6. Twenty-eight coral berry (Symphoricarpos vulgaris). 



7. Nine red-twigged dogwood {Cornus alba). 



8. Three golden bell {Forsylhia suspensa, var. Forlunei). 



9. Three Morrow's bush honeysuckle {Lonicera Morrowii). 



10. Six rose of Sharon {Hibiscus Syriacus). 



11. Three variegated red-twigged dogwood {Cornus alba, var. 



eleganlissima) . 



12. Four deutzia (Deulzia crenala). 



13. Five winterberries {Ilex verticillala) . 



14. Three weigela {Diervilla hybrida, var. rosea). 



15. Seven salmon-barked willow {Salix vilellina, var. 



Britzensis). 



16. Four red osier dogwood {Cornus slolonijera). 



34. Seven English 



17. Three common barberry (Berberis vulgaris). 



18. Three golden bell (Forsylhia suspensa). 



19. Eight yellow-twigged dogwood (Cornus alba). 



20. Three white spruce (Picca alba). 



21. One Nordman's fir (Abies N ordmanniand). 



22. One silver retinispora (Relinispora squarrosa, var. Vcilchii). 



23. Seven globe arborvita? (Thuya occidentalis, var. globosa). 



24. Two oriental spruce (Picca oricntalis). 



25. One plume-like Japanese cypress (Relinispora plumosa) 



26. Three hemlock (Tsuga Canadensis). 



27. One Austrian pine (Pinus Austriaca). 



28. One white fir (Abies concolor). 



29. Five thread-branched Japanese cypress (Relinispora filijcra). 



30. Two obtuse-leaved Japanese cypress (Retinispora 



obtusa). 



31. Twenty-six plantain lily (Ftinkia subcordala). 



32. Seven Japanese virgin's bower (Clematis panicula/a). 



33. Fourteen Boston ivy (Ampelopsis Veitchii). 

 ivy (Hedcra Helix). 



THE 100 x 150 ft. lot is about ideal for 

 people who can afford to spend six 

 thousand to eight thousand dollars on house 

 and lot, but who generally cannot afford to 

 keep a gardener or even a man-of-all-work 

 steadily employed. The depth of the lot is 

 sufficient for a good-sized kitchen garden 

 without harming the ornamental features 

 of the place; but in the plans here given I 

 have assumed that the owner does not care 

 to bother with growing vegetables. In 

 many first-class suburban towns it is possible 

 to get fresh vegetables from' farmers, and 

 many people prefer to have the whole of a 

 lot of this size given up to ornamental fea- 

 tures rather than to take any space for vege- 

 tables, particularly as it is impossible to raise 

 enough potatoes and other vegetables for 

 winter use on a lot as small as this. 



I. THE CHEAPEST SOLUTION 



I25 



One hundred dollars is less than half what should be spent on 150 x 100 ft. 



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While it is possible to buy a few more 

 plants for twenty-five dollars than those 

 listed in plan No. i, such plants would be 

 so small that they would be several years 

 longer in giving a mature effect to the place. 

 The only value of plan No. i is to show how 

 inadequate twenty-five dollars is to plant a 

 place on which $240 ought to be spent. 

 For we can never get a good effect in plant- 

 ing home grounds for much, if any, less 

 than $100, and a good working rule is to 

 reserve 4 per cent, of the total cost of the 

 place for the outdoor features. 



This plan, however, has one interest in 

 showing that even on this small scale it is 

 possible to have a modest collection of such 

 very interesting bushes as the dogwoods. 

 At first thought it may seem absurd to 

 specialize in any direction on so small a 

 scale, and, indeed, specialization in the 

 ordinary sense would not be justified; but 

 the genus Cornus is composed of such 

 widely different species that the passer-by 

 would never imagine that the place had 

 any specialty. For instance, the flowering 

 dogwood is a tree with exceedingly showy 

 bracts; the alternate-leaved dogwood is in- 

 teresting for the formality of the tree, as it 

 bears its branches in regular platforms or 

 tiers; the Cornelian dogwood is unique in 

 having yellow flowers that appear in March ; 

 the Siberian dogwood has red berries that 

 are attractive all winter; and all the 

 species are attractive both in flower and 

 fruit, as they have flat clusters of usually 

 white flowers borne in May or June, while 

 in the autumn they have ornamental ber- 

 ries of various colors. 



2. A BETTER SOLUTION FOR $50 



Plan No. 2 is far from perfect, but at 

 least the place comes nearer to being well 

 furnished, and this solution is also interest- 

 ing as containing a collection of viburnums. 

 These shrubs resemble the dogwoods in 



