March, 1913 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



79 



Perennial poppies are 

 always satisfactory and once 

 established, one of our most 

 persistent Perennials. This 

 is also a characteristic of the 

 Dictamnus — a single clump 

 of which, left undisturbed in 

 old gardens has been known 

 to outlast the generations of 

 people. Lychnis, Clove 

 Pinks and thrift should 

 always be found in the old- 

 fashioned gardens and 

 whereever there is room for 

 long, sentinel r o w s, the 

 Hollyhock should be in 

 evidence, rearing its flowered 

 spikes against the blue of the 

 sky for, unlike many other 

 plants, the Hollyhock re- 

 quires no background, but is 

 seen at its best against the 

 region of the air. 



The hardy garden lends 

 itself to almost any form of 



A "patch" 



treatment, but is always satisfactory when developed in the 

 form of a long border following a walk or drive, rather 

 than in formal or geometrical beds. An arrangement I 

 like myself when there is room for it, is to have a wide 

 border of flowering shrubs and tall-growing plants on one 

 side of a walk or drive, and a narrower one of lower 

 growths on the lower or sunny side. This is an admirable 

 arrangement for a walk running from east to west. 



Another arrangement which I like is found in the beds 

 radiating, like the spokes of a wheel, from a common 



center. This gives a very 

 effective means of planting 

 as tall shrubs and flowering 

 trees may be used at the 

 rear, lower shrubs in the 

 middle and low-growing 

 Perennials and Bulbs and 

 Annuals on the edges of the 

 beds and in front. This 

 brings all the planting well in 

 view and another and very 

 practical advantage is found 

 in the fact that the beds can 

 be extended at any time, thus 

 increasing the area of the 

 garden without in anyway 

 disturbing its outlines. The 

 capacity of beds of this 

 shape — narrow at the begin- 

 ning and increasing in width 

 as they recede is very great 

 and the path area always 

 sufficient — a point that is 

 well worth considering, 

 of Doronium Whether the home garden 



is an extensive or is a small one, there are more things 

 to think about in its planting than merely the putting 

 into the ground seeds of the flowers we are personally 

 fond of. We must consider the landscape effects (even 

 in limited areas) of this spot of color and of that, we 

 must plant with judgment so the tall-growing flower 

 stalks when they reach maturity will not hide the low-grow- 

 ing plants, and we must plan, too, for flowers indoors, so we 

 may have a succession of flowers especially suitable for cut- 

 ting and arranging in vases for the table and elsewhere. 



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