February, 1910 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



57 



The fence line of the estate is hidden by a harmonious grouping of shrubs and plants 



tween the edge of the lawn 

 and along the front of the 

 garden and the salvia was 

 filled with two closely 

 planted rows of many vari- 

 eties of coleus, some of 

 solid and some of varie- 

 gated colors, intermixed, 

 forming a fitting fore- 

 ground to the higher salvia, 

 grape-vine and cannas im- 

 mediately to the north. 

 Coleus is a most tender 

 plant, and should not be 

 set out before May 30th, 

 but with plenty of moisture 

 it is a fine bedder, having 

 an ample growth, few pests 

 to interfere with its prog- 

 ress, and a wealth of foli- 

 age which is unrivaled. 



The grape-vine casts a 

 shadow to the northward, 

 yet in spite of this draw- 

 back I find no difficulty in 

 growing peonies of differ- 

 ent varieties, heliopsis, 

 German and Japanese iris, 

 ing the month of March will benefit the soil more than if chrysanthemums and hibiscus immediately in its rear. A 

 placed there in the previous fall. At the eastern end of single clump of heliopsis or iris will, in the course of a few 

 our garden there stood for many years a solitary pine, sur- seasons, spread and multiply very rapidly and yield an 

 vivor of a grove which formerly flourished in this section, abundance of blossoms. 



Under this tree several years ago, a summer house, trian- To fill the space from the western end of the grape-vine 



gular in form, was built, the trunk of the pine coming down and immediately to the north of the red cannas mentioned 

 through the middle of the front. This pine, which had above, was rather difl'icult and at the same time maintain 

 been vears in dying, finally succumbed, and was cut down a pleasing effect from either the lawn side or the mid- 

 as shown in the accompanying photographs. walk side of the garden. After repeated efforts ending in 



A gravel walk along a privet hedge approaches the gar- failure, I found that I could successfully fill this space in 

 den from the south at the eastern end and runs north and question with hardy hydrangeas interspaced plentifully with 

 west, practically dividing it into halves. The problem was the nicotiana plants of both the white and pink flowering 

 how to fill this garden with 

 plants so that a harmoni- 

 ous mass effect would be 

 presented from either the 

 front along the lawn side, 

 or along the sides of the 

 dividing walk Years ago 

 a former owner had plant- 

 ed some grape-vines in the 

 south half of the garden 

 plot. These vines were 

 planted about four feet 

 from, the edge of the lawn, 

 and were not removed, but 

 were used rather as a par- 

 tial screen of the garden 

 beyond. An ample trellis 

 was built for the vines, 

 and immediately before 

 this was planted a row of 

 scarlet salvia of the bon- 

 fire variety. The grape- 

 trellis extends towards the 

 west only about half of the 

 length of the garden, so 

 from where it ends a row 

 of red-leaved, red-flower- 

 ing cannas of the average 

 height of four feet was 

 planted. The space be- 



Masses of phlox and gladiloias are planted along one side ol the garden walk 



