THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
April, 1915 
156 
being cirpeted with myrtle. Wild phlox, 
often called wild sweet William, doesn’t 
look in the least wild when planted in the 
border; it thrives in shaoe and tosses its 
airy, violet-blue whorls and faint fragrance 
for six weeks of springtime. 
Besides the wild phlox, May will see the 
blooming of violets, forget-me-nots, colum- 
bine, lily-of-the-valley and pansies. The 
last two will hold over into June, when 
anchusa and trollius will join, with fox- 
gloves, Canterbury bells, meadow sweet, 
Spiraea Aruncus and hemerocallis. 
Both of the spireas, foxglove and Canter- 
bury bells will last well into July; anchusa, 
trollius and the yellow monkshood bloom 
all through the month and tuberous be- 
gonias join the show about the fifteenth. 
The last three, with the lovely white day 
lilies, make August glorious. Anchusa is 
faithful for the first week in September, 
which month sees almost a complete change; 
pansies begin again, with the blue monks- 
hood, the first Japanese anemones, and the 
white speciosum lilies queening it among 
the ferns. 
Anemones, pansies, and monkshood con- 
tinue through October with the ferns help- 
ing to make the border pretty until snow 
flies. And now who says that the north side 
must necessarily be planted to evergreens? 
Evergreens, of course, give a certain dig- 
nified appearance to a house when planted 
with a view to landscape effect, and a cer- 
tain amount of picturesque beauty in win- 
ter may be obtained by their use and by 
the use of red twigged and red berried trees 
and shrubs; but there are many of us who 
would willingly suffer the bareness of win- 
ter in the shaded border rather than lose 
the pleasure of having flowers all summer. 
And by following my plan and using the 
flowers I have mentioned, continuous bloom 
and pleasing color combinations can be had 
all summer long. 
Practical Plans for the Home Grounds 
II. A Partnership Garden — By Ruth Dean, Landscape Designer 
[Editors’ Note — The first article in this series of monthly plans appeared in the March issue ami dealt with an odd shaped 
corner. A different problem is taken up each time. Complete planting plans are not given here, as the object is to discuss the layout in gen- 
eral. Planting plans will be found in the February issue and elsewhere in this number.] 
T HE plan on this page is the story of 
two people who combined their 
smallish, narrow lot, for mutual 
benefit. Neither one of them 
could have had much of a garden on his own 
plot, but together a very pleasant one was 
possible, and each has all the sensations of 
possessing a place of considerable size. 
This greater extent is responsible for a better 
designed garden than could have been the 
result if it had been crowded into about half 
the space. Besides giving the landscape 
architect more scope for design, a co- 
operative scheme of this sort is less expensive 
both in initial investment and in cost of 
maintenance, than two smaller ones, de- 
signed and executed separately. One big 
nursery order rather than two little ones, 
one set of workmen, single lots of materials 
all make for decreased costs. 
Each house owner still has his own 
kitchen garden, garage and service yard, he 
merely turns over his portion of the space 
between his house and his neighbor’s for a 
joint pleasure garden. 
Behind these two houses the ground 
sloped off for a short distance, and this was 
graded into a terrace with a retaining wall 
about eighteen inches high, which serves in 
some sort to tie the two buildings together. 
Across this terrace a low, tidily clipped 
hedge, which acts as a coping, breaks in the 
centre to make way for a lead water sprite 
who pours water down into the fan-shaped 
pool below. The wide, paved piazzas are 
flush with the terrace, from which one goes 
down three steps into the garden. Along 
the base of the wall iris and grasses grow up 
to the pool, and give it a friendly air of 
belonging in its surroundings. Broad walks 
lead down between flowers — old-fashioned 
perennials, newer fashioned annuals, and 
roses, to the flag-paved arbor. This arbor, 
flower-bordered too, and roofed with vines, 
offers pleasant shelter for afternoon tea, and 
an hospitable spot in which to spend long 
summer hours over a book. Shrubs that 
grow high as small trees, shut out the garage 
and kitchen gardens, the latter accessible 
from the flower garden by white gates in 
the shrubbery border. Here each owner 
may grow vegetables to his own taste, and if 
in the flower garden he needs to subserve his 
desires to the general design, in his vegetable 
garden he may have full scope to plant 
whatever pleases him. 
This scheme furnishes individual owner- 
ship where differences might arise, that is 
with respect to the garage and vegetable gar- 
dens and joint ownership of the pleasure gar- 
den, which is easily and profitably shared. 
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Two small plots treated as one and so planned as to be easily divided if desirable later 
