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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



June, 1 910 



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the various plants are 

 shown on the plan of the 

 garden. The Asters have 

 done well, and are free 

 from the black fly. The 

 Roses also have succeeded, 

 and are blooming continu- 

 ously. Among the last are 

 included Gruss au Teplitz, 

 Madam le Vasseur, Frau 

 Carl Druschki, Baron 

 Rothschild, Dorothy Per- 

 kins, Kaiserine Victoria and 

 Jacquenot. The Sedums 

 and Asters have been par- 

 ticularly a great success, 

 especially when cultivated 

 at so high an altitude. The 

 borders of Festuca glauca 

 have been a failure in 

 this attempt, and for 

 other known reason 

 except that the plants 

 were poor. The 

 F u n k i a have all 

 bloomed extraordin- 

 arily well. The Jap- 

 anese Iris in sunken 

 beds have been a suc- 

 cess, and also the beds 

 of Dianthus have 

 bloomed all the sum- 

 mer. 



The lily pool built 

 at the center of the 

 garden, and just 

 across the bowling % 

 green from the gar- 

 den front of the 

 house, has been well 

 filled with Nymphaea 

 placed in tubs, which 

 have been very suc- 

 cessful, especially the 

 odorata and Marli- 

 acea albida species. 



The Oriental Pop- 

 pies and petunias 

 have reached the 

 hoped-for perfection, 

 the latter holding on 

 for a long time in a 

 continuous blaze of 

 color. Another flower 

 which has given great 

 satisfaction, and 



which has made a de- 

 lightful display, is the 

 Salvia Bonfire. Just 

 a single glance at re- 

 sults in only the Nico- 

 tianas and Hollyhocks 

 will be enough t o 

 show that the culti- 

 vated area of even 

 a moderate-sized gar 



The pool in the formal garden 



BIGNON 



CLEMATIS 

 PHILA. RAMBLER 

 TAUSCHENOEN 

 LAOY GAY 

 CLOTH. SOUPERT 

 DOROTHY PERKINS 



The plan of the garden 



labor expended, whether on 

 the delicate and gradual 

 curve of a leaf or the clus- 

 tering of effects, will im- 

 prove year after year. 



One of the most success- 

 ful shrubs to plant for a 

 hedge when height and 

 massiveness are required is 

 the Hydrangea paniculata 

 grandiflora. This makes 

 a splendid shrub to use in 

 this manner. It is inex- 

 pensive, and it is hardy, 

 and it can be trained to 

 make a receding hedge 

 from the line of a fence to 

 the edge of a grass plot 

 which may form the bor- 

 der of the bed. One of 

 the charms of this shrub 

 for ornamental gar- 

 den use is that it can 

 be trimmed and 

 grown like a tree. 



The Catalpa Bun- 

 gei is a favorable tree 

 to plant, not only for 

 its rapid growth and 

 its wide spreading 

 branches of broad 

 leaves, but for the 

 great cluster of beau- 

 tiful blooms which it 

 bears every season. 

 This is a splendid tree 

 to use where it is de- 

 sired to place a gar- 

 den seat. 



At either end and 

 at the side of the pool 

 in the formal garden 

 are placed garden 

 seats. A sun-dial is 

 located at the ex- 

 treme end of this gar- 

 den and is an import- 

 ant adjunct when it is 

 properly set up. 



The naturalesque 

 garden adjoining the 

 formal garden at 

 Rachaelwood " i s 

 well designed with a 

 Japanese effect. 



It has a pool built 

 in an irregular form, 

 at one end of which a 

 Japanese lantern of 

 stone is placed; and 

 behind this is erected 

 a garden altar, con- 

 structed of rough 

 stone. 



The stone pedestal 

 in the center of the 



den fronting a house can grow under the eye of design and walk which leads to the pergola shown in the engravings, 



the hand of care; and that an amateur, without tangling is ornamented with a bronze urn of Japanese design, 

 herself in a set of rules, may work successfully among The pergola is covered with vines, which are growing 



bushes, plants and flowers, full of expectation that the and flowering in profusion. 



