pillar and there were countless buds. For quite 

 six weeks they were indeed, American Beauties. 

 And even after the blooms were gone, the foliage 

 was attractive. 



I saw a long border made in a grassed ter- 

 race, in which grew tree, bush and baby bordering 

 fuschias. Begonias, semperHorens, dwarf he- 

 liotrope and tall heliotrope, with a border of scar- 

 let coleus. A three-foot formally clipped box 

 hedge served as the background of this border. 

 The border bed was slightly lower than the level 

 of the terrace. The colors blended in truest har- 

 mony and while I saw it in late September it was 

 without a suggestion of that "Summer has passed 

 look" so many of our most precious garden crea- 

 tions assume. The fuschias were purple and 

 cerise, all of them, the variety was Lord Byron, 

 both tree and bush; the baby bordering fuschia 

 was Carmen. The Coleus was a self-color 

 Ferschaffelti, the tall heliotrope CenteHeur, and 



