The Garden Magazine, August, 1922 



371 



nurserymen of the region hold much 

 information for the gardener. Lom- 

 bardy Poplars may be used for a 

 sky-line effect, also Deodar Cedars 

 with their attractive green foliage, 

 which on the tips of the small 

 branchlets look like tufts of blue 

 feathers. Japanese Junipers, Red 

 Cedars, Holly, and Camphor trees, 

 all having thick evergreen foliage, 

 make a good background. 



The shade trees must be planted 

 with wide open spaces to admit the 

 soft Southern breezes yet close 

 enough so that tops will interlock 

 but not near enough to distort each 

 other. Magnolia grandiflora, queen 

 of flowering evergreens, is glorious 

 in groups, but such grouping is pos- 

 sible only where there is abundance 

 of space. Never crowd; better 

 manufacture your shadows in some 

 other way if space is limited. 



PLANTS PERMAN- 

 ENT AND TRANS- 

 IENT 



Familiar Wisteria 



clothes the pergola and 

 behind we glimpse the 

 less familiar Bamboo; 

 the low Pittosporum 

 hedge is backed by a 

 wall completely cov- 

 ered with Creeping Fig. 

 Snapdragons, Stocks, 

 Arctotis, and Calen- 

 dulas furnish fragrance 

 and color 



SPANISH BAYO- 

 NET (Yucca aloi- 

 folia) ALONG THE 

 WATER FRONT 



Flanked by Palmetto 



(right) and Pine (left), 



all seen in belligerent 



silhouette 



TWO OAKS AND A 



PALM 



Canary Island Date 

 Palm (Phoenix canari- 

 ensis); Water Oak 

 (Quercus nigra or 

 aquatica); and Live 

 Oak (Quercus virgin- 

 iana), one of the most 

 beautiful of American 

 shade trees with the 

 added merit of being an 

 evergreen, easily trans- 

 planted and rapid in 

 growth 



ON a 59 x 125 ft. lot with house 

 and garage, you must firmly 

 decree that the garage be turned so 

 that the side or back will face your 

 view, and then proceed to cover it. 

 There is scarcely anything unsightly 

 that cannot be covered with beauti- 

 ful vines, and so softened into the 

 picture. For an unpretentious wire 

 fence Honeysuckle is safe, rarely af- 

 fected by frost, and it blooms inter- 

 mittently all year, always choosing 

 its blooming period during the full 

 moon. Bignoniaspeciosais a lovely 

 vine with glossy, dark leaves and 

 purple bells tolling a message of 

 fragrance to the bees and the 

 humming birds. Rhynchospermum 

 (Trachelospermum jasminoides) is a 

 strong growing, twining vine with 

 fragrant star-like blossoms, and Jas- 

 minum pubescens an evergreen vine 



