own methods? What a thing of beauty she makes of the roadsides 
all summer, ringing the changes on the simple gamut of yellow and 
green that runs through the year from the Dandelions of May, the 
Buttercups, Butter and Eggs, Evening Primrose, Mullein, Agrimony, 
Cassia and Tansy, to the Asters and Goldenrod of October. 
It is encouraging to find that more effort is made from year to 
year to use native plants and shrubs in their own particular habitat. 
The use has come with the growing appreciation that they harmonize 
in some subtle way with the character of the landscape. 
It is impossible to imagine a more successful border than one 
once observed in a lonely road off the main travelled highway where 
Nature had taken what was at hand and transformed it into a thing 
of unforgettable beauty. A background of tall column like cedars, 
irregularly placed, with the scarlet of Virginia Creepers showing here 
and there in festoons among the dark green or gray green branches. 
Against this the shrub-like sumach with its crimson horns of seeds 
and leaves half turned to the brilliant colors of Autumn. In the fore- 
ground and filling up the space to the edge of the road were masses of 
purple Asters of different shades, Michaelmas daisies and Golden Rod. 
It was a grouping and coloring repeated on a thousand hills, and yet one 
could easily believe that a Greek might have erected an altar on the 
spot, and worshipped it all as an embodiment in visible beauty of 
the spirit of the whole country-side. 
But the impulse of the native American is to go home, whet his 
scythe and come back next day to cut down the pesky weeds ! 
Alice D. Weekes, 
North Country Garden Club, of Long Island. 
Suggestions for Fall Planting 
A Blue, White and Pink Border 
At back plant Bocconia (plume poppy), tall white Nicotiana (for 
its delicious fragrance), pink Dahlias, summer Cosmos in white and 
pink. In front of these, clumps of Oriental Poppies in shades of 
pink, lavender and white, alternating with clumps of pink, lilac and 
blue annual Asters, not forgetting a clump of Belladonna and Queen 
Wilhelmina Delphiniums here and there. 
In front of these, Phlox Drummondi, Balsams, with big "fluffs" of 
Gypsophila to give the softening effect. In front of these for the 
edging, salmon pink Portulaca, Adonis (or light blue) Pansies, dwarf 
Primrose, yellow Phlox Drummondi and Forget-me-nots. 
