THB GRBBNING L A N D S C AP B C 0 M P A N Y, MONROB. MICHIGAN 



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OLD-FASHIONED GARDEN 



This is a section of a formal garden, showing the system of 

 walks and some of the beds. The flags in the right foreground 

 are German Iris. The large-leaved plants near the pergola 

 are Day Lilies. The white bloom in the far background is a 

 bed of Phlox. The circle is filled with Shasta Daisy. The 

 vines on the pergola are Japanese Actinidia and Ampelopsis 

 Quinquefolia. The large tree in the right background is a 

 Linden; those in the distant yard are Maples. The pergola is of 

 Tuscan architecture and semicircular in form. 



The stone wall separates the garden from the residence 

 portion of the grounds. Americans who travel abroad are im- 

 pressed with the number of gardens that are enclosed with walls 

 and many of these travelers, on their return home, build similar 

 structures around their gardens. However, in America, the tend- 

 ency is to build walls too high, apparently under the impression 

 that if a six-foot wall is good, a twelve-foot wall is twice as good. 

 A high wall interferes with a free circulation of air and com- 

 pletely shuts out the view, which is not desirable. Moreover, a 

 high wall has the appearance of a fort, and if this thing continues 

 we shall soon be a military nation! 



It is safe to say that our architects will soon take hold of 

 this problem in a serious way and temper the grotesque notions 

 of some of our globe-trotters who, in true American spirit, are 

 determined to surpass the world, even in the height of their 

 garden walls. Meanwhile, I hope the tide of travel will not 

 turn towards China! 



UTILITY AND BEAUTY — FRUITS AND FLOWERS 



This walk leads to the formal garden, and the view is from 

 the garden end looking up the hill where the house stands behind 

 the trees. A peculiar charm of the walk is the grape trellis on 

 the left. The color-markings on the foliage are very beautiful 

 and the odor of the graoe-blossom is exquisite, to say nothing of 

 that which comes from the " clustered spheres of wit and mirth " 

 that hang from the vines in the fall. On the right border are 

 Creeping Phlox, Dwarf Phlox, and Tall Phlox. 



One of the hobbies of the American people is to have plenty 

 of fruit to eat, and some of them have combined fruit and flower 

 gardens as shown in this picture, which presents the idea of 

 growing a row of grapes on the border of a walk leading to the 

 fruit garden. In this garden there are apples, pears, plums, 

 peaches, and the small fruits like currants, gooseberries, rasp- 

 berries, blackberries and strawberries, supplying an abundance for 

 the owner's table. The fruit garden can be bordered with flowers, 

 or the flower garden bordered with fruit. A hedgerow of dwarf 

 pear trees planted three feet apart and interlaced, espalier fashion, 

 makes a very interesting garden. 



Mr. Leonard Wilton, a Detroit lumber merchant, whose 

 summer residence is on Grosse Isle, is a most enthusiastic advo- 

 cate of this style of gardening. It was my privilege to be com- 

 missioned to make and execute his garden plans, in which there 

 is a very complete combination of the fruit and flower idea. 

 Besides the residence grounds there is a piece of ground directly 

 across the road on which are a small greenhouse and a chicken 

 house, and connected with them is a fruit garden comprising all 

 the various kinds of fruits. 



Plate 102. Ulility ami Beauty — Fruits and Flowers 



