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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 1913 





"Mamma's gone away — and I don't care!" 



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The Straight Garden Walk 



AFTER all there is a great deal to be said for 

 the straight line in the garden. Nature may 

 abhor it, but then a garden at best can be no more 

 than pseudo-natural. As for a straight garden 

 walk there are two good enough reasons for its 

 existence as frequently as the occasion arises — 

 the matter of convenience and the opportunity of 

 creating a formal vista. 



Both of these reasons are admirably illustrated 

 by the garden walk on the General Joseph Per- 

 kins place at Lyme, Conn. Incidentally it quite 

 as well illustrates the idea that the true home 

 garden is sanctuary for the family rather than an 

 object of admiration on the part of the passing 

 public. The place, fronting on the main street 



A double border walk which links the house with a 

 bit of woodland. The planting is in bold clumps 



is much longer than it is wide; it stretches some 

 hundreds of feet back, through a little bit of wood- 

 land, to the meadows. As the woodland is an 

 integral part of the home it would have been 

 foolish to lengthen the connecting link for the sake 

 of avoiding an uncommonly long straight line. 



The truth is that here the straight line of a few 

 hundred feet is exceedingly agreeable — the more 

 so as the approach from the rear of the house is 

 informal, while at the other extreme the way changes 

 to a narrow winding path directly the woodland 

 retreat is entered. Besides the vista is broken in 

 two by trees that arch it at one point. Again 

 the wide border of perennials on either side is 

 relieved of primness not only by irregular planting 

 but by glimpses of the long chain of flower beds 

 and shrubs that form a parallel garden at the left 

 and of the grass land and trees at the right. In 

 the spring the right border is paralleled by a 

 narrow row of various kinds of daffodils. The 

 border planting is largely given over to clumps, and 

 in some cases extensive colonies, of such perennials 

 as the foxglove, peony, German iris, phlox, larkspur, 

 Daphne Cncorum, lily-of-the-valley and Oenothera 

 sufructicosa. Where the walk comes to the end 

 of its straightness, naturalistic planting begins 

 and a sprinkling of color is carried up to the summer 

 house among the trees of the thin woods — that 

 offer seclusion and yet do not shut off the view 

 of the meadow below. 



New York. H. S. Adams. 



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