XIV 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



May, 1908 



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useful, as perhaps no other type is, for sum- 

 mer use, for vacation use, for temporary oc- 

 cupation ; a house one might flee to for a brief 

 respite from more formal housekeeping, or 

 which one might enjoy from summer's be- 

 ginning to the end. 



Here, then, is a house of such surpassing 

 utility that its excellence scarce needs to be 

 rehearsed. It is a fine thing that this is so, 

 as well as a fact of manifest excellence. No 

 other house, no other kind of house, can be 

 put to so many varied uses, and employed 

 in so many different ways. It is a house that 

 lends itself to all purses, and which is as wel- 

 come to the millionaire as to the housekeeper 

 of most modest means. 



I think I do not exaggerate when I desig- 

 nate it as the summer house par excellence. It 



is a love of a house, a charming, bright, livable, 

 adaptable, usable home. It meets every de- 

 mand put upon it. It meets every require- 

 ment that may be asked of a house, save, of 

 course, winter's continuous use. Here, per- 

 haps, it is wanting in its general adaptability ; 

 but its utility in other seasons is so very great 

 that surely this one defect — if it be a defect, 

 may be pardoned. 



To me the bungalow is the house of houses. 

 At least it is a house such as I can have and 

 delight in. There are a good many houses 

 I know I can't have, and some perhaps that I 

 would not care to have; but my bungalow 

 nesting under its clump of green trees, with 

 its vine-clad walls, its modest garden, its 

 pleasant furniture — that indeed is a house and 

 a home! 



HOW TO LINE THE WALK TO 



A SUMMER HOME WITH 



FLOWERS 



By Ida D. Bennett 



THE possession of a summer home sup- 

 poses a considerable time spent in the 

 open air, and an interest in things that 

 pertain thereto — chickens, birds and flowers. 

 It will not, however, as a general thing be as 

 desirable to devote any considerable amount 

 of time to the flower garden — at least as com- 

 pared to the time that would naturally be 

 given the occupation in the all-the-year home. 

 The spirit of the summer home is entire 

 freedom from care, or at least a reasonable 

 amount of leisure in which to enjoy outdoor 

 life at the fullest. But a summer home would 

 be lacking in one of the greatest charms of 

 rural life were it destitute entirely of flowers 

 and these, in some form or other, must be pro- 

 vided for, though a formal garden will 

 scarcely appeal to one in this connection. 



Probably the most practical arrangement 

 of flowers in the summer home will be the 

 wide border along the walk leading to the 

 front or rear door — this arrangement so dear 

 to our grandmothers — has much to recom- 

 mend it. It gives a welcome at the very gate 

 itself — a promise of the more personal, cor- 

 dial welcome that shall greet one at the 

 threshold. 



Where the summer home is a permanent 

 possession to be returned to year after year 

 this planting may preferably be of hardy 

 perennials, which will require little care be- 

 yond an annual weeding and loosening up 

 of the soil, and, perhaps, a mulching with 

 leaves and compost in late fall. The list of 

 available plants for the purpose is so large 

 that almost any color preference may be con- 

 sulted, but if the home is only to be occupied 

 during July, August and September it will 

 be well to select flowers which are most ; n 

 evidence at that time rather than those early 

 spring blooming plants which will, in this 

 case, but waste their sweetness on the desert 

 air. 



The June roses, the paeonies and the gar- 

 den pinks and lilies will have had their day 

 and faded by the time the summer vacation 

 is on, but the various spireas will be much 

 in evidence, and the Japanese iris will give a 

 fine display throughout July, and the monks- 

 hood and achilleas will still be in evidence. 

 Tall hollyhocks should form the background 

 of this border planting and the single flowers 

 will be quite as effective as the double varie- 

 ties and far more enduring and hardy. Late 

 Columbians will throw their long spurred 

 flowers to the wind — a picture of grace and 

 beauty — and the tall spikes of asphodel con- 

 trast finely with the blue of the larkspur. 

 Then there are the tall spikes of the foxglove 

 than which there is no finer flower to be de- 

 sired, and the Canterbury balls and, where 

 a brilliant bit of color is wanted, the scarlet 

 lychnis, which works into lovely bouquets 

 when combined with the white of the clemati 

 or gypsophila. 



Later there will come the glory of the 

 golden glow and the more subdued splendor 

 of the purple cone flower which belongs to 

 the same family. Nor must the Sweet Will- 

 iams be overlooked, as these are ironclad 

 denizens of the hardy garden, hardy and, 

 especially in their new forms, beautiful. 



All these may be planted in stately rows 

 adown the garden paths, planting the taller 

 growing forms in the rear as a background 

 for the lower growing sorts and edging the 

 beds with thrift or armeria. 



This is by no means a complete list of the 



