A GrREEN It is just as well that I confess at once that my green garden 
Garden is not from choice but from necessity, for I am blessed and 
burdened with a great deal of shade — the one thing in Colorado 
not conducive to the successful raising of flowers. Of course 
sacrificing a few trees would have solved the problem, but the 
lights and shadows seemed to me my garden's chief beauty 
and removing the trees meant doing away with that most 
attractive feature. However, the green garden which is mostly 
evergreen, is a joy every month of the year, and, with a few 
spring bulbs tucked in around the shrubs. Columbine and 
Myrtle covering the ground at the foot of the Evergreens, I 
have found the result more than satisfying. Groups of Spruces 
and Juniper fill the corners of the garden, with dwarf Pimis 
mughus and Jmiiperus sabina in the foreground — golden 
Willows and red twigged Dogwood, Cornus alba, form a group 
which gives more pleasure in winter than when in leaf. Hardy 
grasses and ferns vying with each other near the pool, Sumac 
intermingling with the Snowberry, all help to make my so- 
called "green garden," colorful. I have not spoken of the 
hedge which is European Privet and which has adapted itself 
so Vv'onderfuUy to our climate. One side of the garden is 
fenced with lattice which is completely covered with Silver 
Lace vine and makes a lovely background for many low 
growing Evergreens. A path is bordered with pink Hawthorn 
trees which grow very slowly here and require little attention 
to keep symmetrical. Covering a terrace are masses of Roses 
whose branches fall gracefully on the ground: a group of 
white Birch trees not too far removed from the Evergreens 
so one may enjoy the wonderful contrast, is one of the garden's 
most attractive notes. Despite the fact that flowers are almost 
an unknown quantity a green garden is, in summer, a thing 
of beauty — In winter a tremendous joy ! 
E. C. McC. 
Columbine To one who has seen a mountain meadow in late June, with 
AS A its circle of Asp en wood massed with wild Eoses, yellow Lupines 
Garden- and Columbines, the difficulty of getting an effect in the home- 
Plant garden with the Aquilegia seems tremendous. To begin with, 
shall one limit himself to the native variety (Rocky mountain or 
coerulea) and simulate a homogeneous setting as rock gardens 
are created, purely to simulate back-grounds for mass planting 
of certain low-growing plant forms ; or shall one accept the 
situation frankly and use the Aquilegia in greater or lesser 
variety in herbaceous borders, just as one uses any other flower 
under favorable conditions ? You may say that this depends 
somewhat on one's pocket-book, and on the size of one's garden, 
and if one can afford the luxury of naturalising on a large estate, 
he hardly needs the advice of an amateur. We can then narrow 
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