December, 19 lo 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



491 



A photograph of the garden made September, 1910 



The other end of the garden 



heleniums, glittering gillardias and Oriental poppies, the rounded with forget-me-nots, tuberous begonia, verbenia 

 king of the garden, as the rose is the queen. and white candy-tuft. It makes a beautiful mingling of 



Violent contrasts are avoided by skillful arrangement of soft colors, which blend and harmonize like a setting of a 



harmonizing color. 

 Every foot o f 

 ground is clothed 

 with varied vegeta- 

 tion, and yields its 

 due proportion of 

 flowers. When early 

 plants are through 

 blooming I fill in 

 vacant places with 

 annuals, such as as- 

 ters, marigolds, zin- 

 nia, \'erbenia, salvia, 

 petunia, nasturti- 

 ums. With the 

 help of these annu- 

 als the floral pro- 

 cession keeps up 

 and on until the 

 end of the season. 



A photograph of the garden made June, 1910 



beautiful jewel. 



The proper ar- 

 rangem.ent of the 

 grounds is as im- 

 portant as the in- 

 ternal arrangement 

 of a house. The 

 lawn, garden and 

 clothes yard should, 

 as in this case, be 

 laid out in perfect 

 harmony. 



Who would not 

 like to have the sat- 

 isfaction of possess- 

 ing such a garden as 

 this to add to the 

 pleasure of living in 

 the country? 



There is not such 



At the south end of the garden in front of the Japanese a great honor in acquiring a garden which has been laid out 

 bird-house, there is a round bed, composed of low growing under the direction of a paid landscape architect as one that 

 plants. The center has a tub of pink water lilies, sur- has been planned and built with one's own hands. 



Third Garden Prize 



Won by M. F. Ault, Indianapolis, Indiana 



HE space occupied by the garden described 

 below is fifty-three feet wide and seventy- 

 six feet long. It is bounded — north by a 

 hedge of California privet, east by the 

 residence, south by a tight fence, and west 

 by an alley fence which in a short time 

 will be taken down to make room for a 

 hedge of California privet. The garden is about equally 

 divided, the long way, by a brick walk, and on either side 

 of the walk are beds of primroses, bluebells, coriopis, 

 geraniums, and Mexican fire-bush trimmed to rectangular 

 form — as shown in the illustration. The background of 



the garden is a Concord grape arbor, eight feet high, and 

 seven walnut trees which started from nuts buried bv pet 

 squirrels. Also the background is bordered bv a row of al- 

 ternating cannas and caladiums. The high fence on the 

 south is partly covered by Boston ivy, while the rest is con- 

 cealed by a row of artichokes, a bed of golden-glow, a bunch 

 of red cannas and a Norway maple. Extending to the north 

 from the brick wall is a cement walk, and in the angle of 

 the walks is a circular bed, four feet in diameter, bordered 

 by ageratum. The center of this bed is occupied by the 

 stump of an old apple tree which is surrounded by various 

 coleus plants, and surmounted by pots of geraniums, ivv 



