August, 1907 



AMERI 



CAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



XIX 



remain in solution, stainin^j; the solvent. One 

 may in this way protect liimself from adul- 

 terated paints and from aniline dyes, which 

 spoil the best color scheme. These tests might 

 be applied over night to the paints used by a 

 contractor who mixes his own paints and guar- 

 antees to employ only the best materials. The 

 alkaline emulsifying agents are the adulterants 

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THE HARDY HEDGE AS AN 

 ORNAMENTAL FEATURE 

 OF THE LAWN 



By Ida D. Bennett 



WHERE any attempt at formal garden- 

 ing is undertaken or it is desired to 

 have a garden that shall be something 

 more than scattered beds about the lawn or 

 the foundations of the house, the planting of 

 some sort of a hedge becomes of first iinport- 

 ance. Where no massed plantings of ever- 

 greens or hardy shrubbery is attempted along 

 the boundaries of the lawn, the hedge of 

 hardy shrubs may take its place to advantage, 

 but it will especially be advisable in affording 

 privacy to the garden, to the service part of 

 the grounds, and to cut off from the flower 

 garden that part of the grounds allotted to 

 the kitchen garden when they are in close 

 neighborhood, as must be the case on the city 

 lot or the grounds of moderate dimensions. 



The evergreen hedge has long been popular, 

 and has the advantage of being always sightly, 

 even in the depth of winter. Their merit, 

 however, ends with their evergreen character, 

 as they occupy an amount of room that one 

 often feels can not be spared, and there are few 

 flowers or plants which will thrive in the im- 

 mediate vicinity of an evergreen hedge. There 

 are situations, however, where nothing can take 

 the place of evergreens, whether grown as a 

 hedge or massed in long beds or lines. 



For a prominent position along the lawn 

 there is nothing better than a hedge of hardy 

 flowering shrubs, and there are several varie- 

 ties of this class of plants which are all that 

 can be desired in this direction, being both 

 ornamental in foliage and beautiful when in 

 bloom. 



The finest shrub for ornamental hedges is 

 undoubtedly the hydrangea paniculata grandi- 

 flora, which blooms late in August and con- 

 tinues well into or late in September. The 

 paniculata requires plenty of room, and should 

 be planted at least five feet apart if large 

 plants are set, smaller plants being set three 

 feet apart in the row, and as soon as they have 

 grown sufl'iciently to fill up the gap between 

 them every other plant should be taken up and 

 set elsewhere. The remaining plants will then 

 quickly fill up the gap, usually in one season, 

 and the plants removed may be used to extend 

 the hedge or to start a new hedge elsewhere. 



The plants should be pruned severely early 

 each spring, cutting back about two-thirds of 

 the new growth ; in this way larger blooms 

 are secured and stockier plants. Well grown 

 plants should always be broader than they are 

 tall. Any good soil, well manured, suits the 

 hydrangea, and a heavy mulching of manure 

 late in the fall, which may be partially re- 

 moved in the spring, and the finest forked 

 into the soil and the earth covered heavily 

 with lawn clippings through the summer, 

 should keep the hedge in condition to bloom 

 generously, especially if not allowed to suffer 

 for water at any time. 



Hydrangeas are increased by cuttings, which 

 may be stuck in damp sand in a warm, sunny 

 position, and will furnish plants which may be 

 set out where they are to remain, in the fol- 



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