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THE GARDEN M A G A Z I N E 
February, 1915 
page 20 ; where a second figure is given it 
refers to the quantity required. 
HYBRID PERPETUAL ROSES, 12 EACH 
1 . General Jacqueminot 7 . Baron de Bonstettin 
2. Mrs. John Laing 8. Margaret Dickson 
3. Magna Charta 9. Louis Van Houtte 
4. Frau Karl Druschki 10. Captain Christy 
5. Paul Neyron 11. Clio 
6. Marchioness of London- 12. Soleil d’Or 
derry 
HYBRID TEA ROSES, 12 EACH 
13. Grass an Teplitz 16. La France 
14. Etoile de France 17. Kaiserin Augusta Victoria 
15. Mad. Caroline Testout 18. White La France 
ROSES ON CHAIN FENCE, 4 EACH 
Hiawatha 
Minnehaha 
Delight 
Wedding Bells 
Evangeline 
Snowdrift 
EVERBLOOMERS 
19. 24 Hermosa 24. 12 Maman Cochet 
20. 24 Clothilde Soupert 25. 12 White Maman Cochet 
21. 12 Perle des Blanches 26. 24 Baby Rambler 
22. 12 Coquette des Blanches 27. 24 Baby Dorothy 
23. 12 Souv’r de laMalmaison 28. 100 White Baby Rambler 
CLIMBING ROSES AND VINES 
29. 4 Rose Baltimore Belle 36. 4 Rose Excelsa 
30. 2 Rose Dawson 37. 2 Clematis lanuginosa 
Jackmanni 
31. 4 Rose Crimson Rambler 38. 2 Clematis lanuginosa 
Henryi 
32. 2 Rose Dorothy Perkins 39. 2 Clematis lanuginosa 
Ramona 
33 - 
2 Rose White Dorothy 
40. 2 Clematis czerulea Duch- 
Perkins 
ess of Edinburgh 
34 - 
2 Rose Debutante 
41 . 4 Clematis czerulea Miss 
Bateman 
35 - 
4 Rose Tausendschon 
TALL 
HERBS 
A. 
Phlox Richard Wallace 
D. Phlox Le Soliel 
B. 
Phlox Independence 
E. Phlox L’Esperance 
C. 
Phlox Miss Lingard 
F. Phlox Von Hochberg 
COVER 
HERBS 
G. 
500 Viola comuta, var. 
L. i.ooo Galanthus Elwesii 
alba 
M. 2,000 Crocus vernus, 
H. 
200 Sedum album 
var. albus 
I. 
200 Phlox subulata, var. 
N. 2,000 Scilla sibirica, var. 
rosea 
alba 
J- 
200 Phlox subulata, var. 
P. 500 Colchicum autum- 
alba 
nale, var. album 
K. 
500 Heuchera sanguinea 
III. ENTRANCE PLANTING 
(See blueprint plan, page 21) 
A SUGGESTION is here made for the ar- 
rangement of shrubs about the west side 
of a country residence and the turn in the en- 
trance drive. The separate sections of this 
plan may be utilized for planting much 
smaller places. The shrubs used are gen- 
erally well-known sorts, arranged in a na- 
turalistic way, for screen, show of flowers 
all summer, and of fruit in autumn. As the 
house is not occupied after December 15 
there is no provision for evergreens. For 
the area indicated it will take some thousand 
shrubs that may be planted for approxi- 
mately $200 depending upon local condi- 
tions and management. The herb planting 
may be put in later. 
The species chosen are all vigorous growers, 
bushy in habit, and not easily broken by 
the rough handling that may be expected 
along a drive that is much used. Further, 
these shrubs are not too vigorous growers, 
requiring frequent pruning or heading back, 
yet they are able to endure the winters of 
the northern tier of states, or Southern 
Canada. 
Each species contributes its part to the 
continuous procession of flowers, pink and 
white, from shadbush of May until each is 
laden with its clusters of characteristic 
fruits in late summer. We further ex- 
clude all plants of unusual or striking leafage 
and take mostly the simple leaf forms of the 
lilac and viburnum, for quiet effect of fol- 
iage. 
Though a screen, it is not a wilderness of 
tall shrubs. There are two important 
vistas to be left open, an unbroken lawn lies 
south from the house, and the main drive 
passes through a thick wood before it 
reaches the residence. The elms, sugar 
maples, and scarlet oaks, shown on the plan, 
are large trees, either native, or transplanted 
as large specimens and are not now con- 
sidered except that they greatly modify our 
planting. 
As the drive approaches the house at a 
steep up-grade and with rather abrupt 
curves the planting along it must be both 
kept back some little distance from it, and 
low enough that careless drivers may see 
over it. Though wide enough for autos 
to pass at any point, at the place marked 
“auto space” the drive is further widened 
that several machines may be left there to 
stand. To give a feeling of space here the 
planting is pushed well back against the 
wood, and a strip kept in turf. One spec- 
imen shrub or small tree maybe planted here 
to break the line of the turf, and yet the 
area will not seem to be taken up by plant- 
ing. One of the best varieties of flowering 
crabapple will represent this kind of a speci- 
men, though a Judas-tree or flowering dog- 
wood would do as well. 
The planting of the oval is particularly 
to be thought out, as this area is to be viewed 
from all sides and is directly in front of 
the main entrance. To give height in the 
centre, partly screening the drive from the 
terrace, flowering dogwood and shadbush 
are chosen, partly on account of their early 
and showy bloom, but also because they are 
native to the woods of the region. To 
strengthen them as a screen, some of the 
taller refined barberries will give a feeling 
of defence, while low dense forms, as Wil- 
son’s barberry and the creeping mahonia, 
border the abrupt turns in the drive. The 
barberries are particularly valuable here 
for their habit of growth, their pleasing leaf 
and bright fruit, though their fragrant little 
yellow flowers are not to be forgotten. To 
fill in at their bases some of the native wild 
roses are effective in leaf, flower, and fruit, 
and by their thorns suggest the same pur- 
pose as barberries. As edging and ground 
cover no better herb can be found than the 
Japanese evergreen spurge (Pachysandra 
terminalis), as it thrives under all conditions 
of soil and shade. As a second choice we 
might consider periwinkle (Vinca minor), 
but it lacks the height of the evergreen 
spurge. 
The service end of the house is hidden by 
tall lilacs, Tartarian honeysuckles, and high- 
bush cranberries. Each is in a large group 
by itself, with lower related species, similar 
but ( different in habit and flower, to face 
it down. The idea of a defensive screen is 
carried out by the tall common barberry 
and the lower Japanese barberry planted 
with them. Perhaps there is too much of 
the barberry type of foliage, but the red 
autumn fruit has made a special appeal to 
the owners of this home. 
Along the vistas, under the large trees 
there are few berry-bearing shrubs that will 
stand shade conditions so well as the snow- 
berry and Indian currant. These will make 
bending masses of red and white berries 
along the turf, the snowberry in the more 
open spaces, and the Indian currant under 
the trees. The western coralberry, a 
delicate Indian currant in habit of growth, 
is given the prominent places where it may 
be admired. 
The planting back of the auto space 
against the wood is mostly of the large- 
leaved native viburnums, an arrangement 
favored by the existing viburnums that 
make the undergrowth of the wood. Across 
the drive, the undergrowth is mostly witch- 
hazel, and this fact suggests that other 
yellow-flowering shrubs may be grouped on 
this side of the drive, particularly a group 
of forsythia, to give its early show of yellow 
bells where the drive emerges from the wood. 
After their bloom is passed their foliage has 
a family resemblance to the privets and 
lilacs, and even to the white fringe that 
gives the airy whiteness of the shadbush in 
late spring, but in fruit hangs its blue drupes 
like its neighbor, the nannyberry. 
The elder that borders the drive through 
the wood may be a continuation of natural 
plantings further back along the drive as it 
passes through the meadows near the en- 
trance at the main road. 
Other groups of shrubs that are introduced 
on the plan bear some real or fancied resem- 
blance to or difference from those about 
them. The three or four main types of 
shrubs (lilac, barberry, honeysuckle, vibur- 
num) being arranged, these details may be 
infinitely varied. 
The brick of the terrace wall may be 
partly covered by the evergreen euonymus, 
the common form where the drive is near 
to the wall, and the fruiting form (var. 
vegetus) where there is room for its spread- 
ing twigs to carry their load of scarlet fruits. 
Boston ivy will help the lilacs to mask the 
service end of the house, but if that is not 
reliably hardy, then Engelmann’s creeper, 
as suggested for the wall of the service yard, 
will serve the same purpose. On the 
porte cochere some vines with not too 
heavy foliage will be most in keeping. 
Akebia or clematis (white-flowered species) 
will appropriately twine up the posts by 
the steps, while wisteria may drape the 
structure itself. 
IV. A GARDEN OF DWARF SHRUBS 
(See blueprint plan, page 24) 
r p'HIS may represent the semi-formal 
A feature of a small place, planned as a 
part of the living lawn near the house terrace 
or piazza. Instead of herbs the lower, rarer 
shrubs are used, chosen for their habit, 
flowers, and fruit. Unless the site were 
unfavorable for garden operations the soil 
could be made ready for $200 to $300, but 
the plants themselves, from reliable sources, 
could not be bought for less than $800, a 
