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JAPANESE GARDENS 
'J'HE best setting for Japanese garden is a rockery where the green of pines and conifers contrasts markedly 
with the grey background. Specimen plantings of all kinds of Evergreen and flowering shrubs are delight, 
ful here; Weigelia, Syringa, Hydrangea and especially Rosa Rugosa give an excellent effect. Japanese Day 
Lily, Shasta Daisies, Asters, Dahlias, Japanese Bell Flowers, Poppies massed in beds are the flowers which 
will best carry out the oriental idea while the vines we would suggest for covering tea houses and trellises are 
Wistaria, purple and white, Japan Golden Leaved Honeysuckle, Kudzu Vine, Crimson Rambler Rose, Cle- 
matis Paniculata and Jackmanni. 
HEDGES 
JTOR marking boundary lines of a city lot, a well trimmed hedge is preferable to a fence, no matter how elab- 
orate it may be, while a drive outlined by low growing Berberry Thunbergii, loses all stiffness and takes 
on graceful contours. For screening off unsightly parts of the premises or securing seculsion to a back yard, or 
garden, a high growing hedge of Buckthorn is very effective and forms a beautiful background, against which 
the bright colors of the garden stand out brilliantly. A hedge is a very practical thing, it is a fence that y ^ 
better with age. The Rosa Rugosa is exceptionally beautiful, its wild roses blooming from June to Septet, fl 
and is of full bushy compact growth. Cornus Siberica is beautiful all the year through on ; 1 I its crim 
canes which are brilliant in the winter. And Golden Elder gives a bright note to any landscape Topping a 
stone wall on a terrace or bounding a formal garden, the quaintly trimmed hedge lends a note of el'.^an j 
btainable in any other way — indeed certain styles of houses demand this finis as a part of their architecture. 
The evergreen hedges trimmed or left to their own devices are always sy "•netri'-al and equally effective, 
ummer or winter, in addition to which their pungent spicy fragrance is ftrv j. 
