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Summer School of Landscape Ar- 
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requirements. The bracketed numbers in this 
list and in the two lists given later, indicate the 
relative height of each flower: 
Hyacinths, scattered, April, (5) 
Tulips, medium and late, Darwins especially, 
May-June (3a) 
Roses, June-July, (3) 
Canterbury Bells, July-August, (4) 
Bush Hydrangeas, August-September, (1) 
Chrysanthemums, September-October, (2) 
As to place: start with the tallest plants, 
the Hydrangeas, which would naturally be 
grouped around the boundaries; the Chrysanthe- 
mums come next, for although they are not 
taller than some Roses, they must be placed 
toward the back since the choicest Roses 
are principally of the dwarf Tea varieties and are 
given third place which would be best in beds 
occupying the middle of the garden. The 
number (3a) is given to the Tulips because they 
can be planted among the Roses and the Chrys- 
anthemums. The Canterbury Bells (4) may be 
planted in borders around the rose beds while the 
Hyacinths (5) can be scattered along these 
borders and among the Canterbury Bells whose 
young clumps of leaves in spring will form a green 
setting for them. 
It will be seen that each flower fits into the 
other in growth as well as flowering season. 
An effective background, something that every 
garden needs, will be afforded by the shrubs 
even when out of bloom. A small garden must be 
treated as a whole with each kind of plant placed 
throughout in its proper relative position. That 
is, the shrubs must not be along one side only, 
while the other is planted with Chrysanthemums; 
both flowers must be on both sides, one at the 
rear and the other in front of it. 
While there should be a part of the gardens 
in which the predominating flower is massed 
so as to give force to the design, it should also, 
wherever possible, be distributed through the 
rest of the garden. The bush Hydrangeas, for 
example, can be accented by placing boxes filled 
with herbaceous Hydrangeas at the center of the 
garden; there can also be a scattering of dwarf 
Chrysanthemums among the Canterbury Bells; 
while the Roses, on the other hand, can be re- 
peated in the background by climbers planted 
against trellises here and there between the 
shrubs. Of course, there must be no fixed, 
hard and fast lines anywhere. 
Another attractive combination of flowers — 
whose blooming periods, lasting as a rule for the 
better part of two months, overlap one another 
sufficiently to maintain an unbroken succession 
of bloom is as follows: Daffodils (5); Lilacs (1); 
Japanese Iris (3a); Sweet Peas (2); Phlox pani- 
culata (decussata) (3); Petunias (4); late sown. 
With the superb improvements in Lilacs of late 
years, groups and masses of them all around a 
garden in late spring would create a beautiful 
display. Both the Phlox and the Japanese 
Iris love rich, moist soil and would go well to- 
gether, the substantial masses of the one con- 
trasting with the sword-like foliage and more 
lightly borne flowers of the other. 
As a final suggestion: Early Tulips (5); Beg- 
onias (3); Philadelphus coronarius, double and 
single (1); Carnation Pinks, white, rose, and 
pink (5); Gladiolus (3a); Dahlias (2). 
G. E. Altree Coley, Metchosin, B. C. 
The Garden Magazine, March, 1921 
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