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Plate 99. A flower-Bordered Walk 



Plate 100. Alpine Plants in lloekery 



F LAN DSC APE GARDENING 



A FLOWER-BORDERED WALK " 



This walk is the side-approach to a mansion which is just 

 beyond the large trees a short distance from the turn. There is 

 a strip of grass fourteen inches wide on each side of the walk. 

 This is a good width for the mower to manage in one swath. 

 Next is an edging of hardy pinks, and back of them is a row of 

 Aletris, commonly called Star-grass. Back of this is a taller- 

 growing grass, Eulalia Gracillima. The effect of planting in 

 continuous lines is to deepen the apparent length of the walk. 



A pleasing variety would result from the use of some shrubs 

 for bush effects. The Hydrangea, closely pruned in the early 

 spring, and the Baby Rambler in red, white and pink colors, all 

 varieties making a moderate growth, would be a good addition to 

 the front border. For the back border the Ornamental Grasses, 

 Bocconia Cordata, Helianthus, Pyrethrum and Cassia, would add 

 much to the beauty of the view. 



ALPINE PLANTS IN ROCKERY 



This is a garden of the wildly picturesque type. A flight of 

 stone stairs affords a descent to a little glen through a mass of 

 rocks on the shoulder of the terrace. Amid the rocks is a 

 growth of Alpine plants with Arabis in the foreground; near 

 the stairway are Gypsophila and Dicentra. There is a wonderful 

 charm in this style of garden, especially for people of romantic 

 natures. The view reads like a canto from Sir Walter Scott. 



" Thus up the margin of the lake, 

 Between the precipice and brake. 

 O'er stock and rock their race they take." 



In planning a landscape of this kind the artist must take his 

 motif from the rolling character of the land. To thoughtfully 

 work out the possibiHties of the material in hand and treat them 

 in a natural manner, is the true art of garden composition. The 

 main features of some ideal landscape type must be present in 

 the scene and enlarged and vivified into dramatic action without 

 violating the unities. For instance, in the present scene, no 

 sensible gardener would think of reproducing the pastoral charm 

 of a Dutch landscape. The potential charms are present in the 

 rugged scenery as nature made it: it is the work of the gardener 

 to evolve them into a picture that shall mean something to the 

 onlooker. 



