April, 1908 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



XV 



of this kind I ever saw, several years ago, 

 stood in the lawn of an old time southern 

 homestead in Cecil County, Maryland. It 

 was then some fifteen years old, and being in 

 full bloom its strikingly beautiful appearance 

 made it conspicuous among the many hand- 

 some native and foreign trees and shrubs 

 scattered over the capacious lawn. 



GARDEN WORK ABOUT THE HOME 



{Continued from page 160) 



produce the effect of a number of houses set 

 in a beautiful park. A fence can be a pleas- 

 ing decoration, even if there is nothing else on 

 the place, and without the fence it is unlikely 

 that there will be anything on it to brag of. 



On this place, however, we expect to shut 

 out the street by a privet hedge, and that will 

 give us almost as much privacy as can be 

 had on such a small lot. We should build 

 a wall or a high fence, but fear to go against 

 the popular taste so strongly in the beginning. 

 The hedge is continued around the garden to 

 screen it from the service court and to give it 

 a strong boundary. The service court and 

 road seemed necessary, not only because there 

 must be some way to get to the garage, but 

 because a drive to the kitchen and cellar doors 

 is indispensable. The place is divided into 

 three parts — front lawn, garden and shrubbery. 

 The front lawn is, as it were, a convenient 

 anteroom to the house, and will be little used. 

 It is decorated with a few shrubs and vines on 

 the house, and will be pleasant to look at from 

 the parlor windows. The garden is well 

 screened from the front of the house and the 

 street by the two hedges and the shrubs, and 

 will not be seen by anyone unasked. 



From the dining-room one looks directly 

 into the garden on two sides, a fortunate ar- 

 rangement, since things are perhaps more en- 

 joyed which can be seen while eating. The 

 tea-house looks upon the garden "and is the 

 termination of the garden path. On the other 

 side the view is toward the lawn of the shrub- 

 bery, with its background of shrubs and trees, 

 which hide the surrounding houses. These 

 flowering shrubs and trees are a garden in 

 themselves and will be interesting the year 

 round. In the turf of this sheltered lawn 

 many spring bulbs will be planted; snowdrops, 

 squills, crocuses, and many others will make of 

 it a "spring garden." On one day in the 

 week, however, its uses will be more practical, 

 as the clothes dryer in the service court is small, 

 and the lawn of the shrubbery will be a tempt- 

 ing place to spread linens to bleach. 



The tea-house, with its seats and table, will 

 be much used, we hope. It is just the place for 

 light sewing, or for shelling peas, and the 

 children will play there by the hour. Tea in 

 the afternoon and after dinner a cigar and 

 quiet talk in the moonlight complete its use- 

 fulness. 



For the sundial there is to be a rough stone 

 block. The dial is to be accurately made and 

 set up, and will bear on its face the simple 

 inscription "omxia fert aetas." 



Planting such a small garden is difficult, be- 

 cause many of the ordinary garden plants are 

 so large, and yet many of the large ones are 

 not to be given up lightly. Then, too, in a 

 place lived in the year round, as this is, it is an 

 object to have as long a season of flowers as the 

 climate will allow, which means that the va- 

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 as simple to care for and as lasting as may be. 

 Simple because the ladies of the house are to 

 take care of it, and lasting because the owner 

 does not want to spend much on it every year. 

 For these reasons it is planted thickly with 

 plants and bulbs that will need little coddling. 

 Annuals are left out because they are easy to 

 buy if one wants them, and they need much 

 care every year and some expense for seeds. 



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