in calmly shaking the salt spray from these very same pink plumes, 

 and again it is quite content with an inland home on a dry bank. 

 The Tamarix family is not a fastidious one as to soil. I cannot 

 understand why it is not more generally used for hedges. It cer- 

 tainly is ideal for this purpose and most interesting and satis- 

 factory. 



It is so far superior to the tiresome, repetition of the rusty, 

 tangled, forlorn and ungraceful, charm-lacking Barberry with its 

 few meagre berries, but besides this, Barberry has fallen from 

 grace because of the many diseases it is accused of sponsoring. 



But it is of Odessana I wish to speak. 



Odessana waves her pink plumes among the great palms in 

 India, and Odessana waves her pink plumes in gardens on Long 

 Island, in seashore gardens in New Hampshire and semi-tropical 

 gardens just outside of San Francisco. We can readily understand 

 how adaptable is Odessana. 



Odessana is the beauty of the Tamarix family, but like the 

 other members of the family, she has one blemish. She is like the 

 peacock; her feet should be hidden. So if you would see Odessana 

 at her loveliest, place groups of her on the other side of a hedge, 

 which will serve to hide her unlovely base. In the September 

 number of OUR GARDEN JOURNAL, you will remember, I 

 spoke of planting Buddleia variabilis superb a to screen her base. 



I will tell you now of a garden near Philadelphia enclosed with 

 a hedge of Japanese privet. The colorful luxuriance of the flowers 

 within accentuated the dreariness and dullness that existed outside 

 the garden proper. 



The "hedged in" garden seemed like a beautiful, fragrant floral 

 box planted on a prairie. It was one of those treeless places that 

 made me wonder why it was ever chosen for a home site. Fortu- 

 nately improvement was in order, but just where to start was the 

 difficulty. 



After days of pondering and studying the situation, I decided 

 to plant just outside the hedge a great massing of Tamarix — all the 

 Tamarix family, in fact. I chose the Tamarix because of its light 



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