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PLANTING FOR IMMEDIATE EFFECT. 
Where immediate results are desired, the general 
effect of this border of hardy perennials may easily 
be secured with annuals. 
For the tallest growths use ricinus Zanzibarensis, 
sunflowers, cannas that make tall growth, salvias 
tween the taller plants : pansies, verbenas and alys- 
sum. 
Borders that are partly filled with either shrubs 
or hardy perennials will be greatly improved by the 
addition of some of these annuals, most of which may 
be grown from seed sown in the ground after danger 
of frost is passed, but a few of which must be started 
PEKRENIAI, BORDER, LAWN AND BACKGROUND OF TREES. 
(which under favorable conditions attain a height of 
four feet), and dahlias; for somewhat lower plants: 
African marigolds, the taller asters, plumbago, mar- 
guerites, French cannas, small sunflowers, annual 
larkspur, heliotrope, scabiosa, geraniums, zinnias, etc. ; 
for still lower : French marigolds, stock, mignonette, 
ageratum, vinca alba and v. rosea, and both dwarf and 
climbing nasturtiums ; and for ground covering be- 
early in greenhouses or hot beds to insure flowers the 
first season. Small plants of these varieties are sold 
by all florists at about ten cents each in the early 
summer. The varieties to be started early are mar- 
guerites (both white and yellow daises will flower all 
summer), cannas, ageratum, heliotrope, geraniums, 
vincas, salvias, pansies, plumbago ca])ensis, and 
dahlias. F. C. S. 
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS AND GARDENERS. 
A word for peace and good understanding is sel- 
dom out of season ; and when it is said to reconcile 
foes who are naturally and logically allies, who are 
fighting in the same cause and do not know it, who 
are rods in the same ljundle but trying to be sepa- 
rated instead of tied together, to stand apart instead 
of supporting each other, it ought to be said and re- 
peated until people listen and stop to think if the 
word in season is not a just and necessary word; for 
the stopping to listen, if it is done not with the ear 
only, bu! with the mind, would be the beginning of 
amity and confidence, the end of aloofness and sus- 
picion. 
These foes who should be friends are the landscape 
architects and the gardeners. The landscape archi- 
tects constantly, and often with reason, suspect the 
gardeners of trying to defeat their plans and to sup- 
plant them with their own devices. The gardeners, 
look on the landscape architects as interlopers, pre- 
tentious meddlers with their provinces, assumers of 
knowledge they do not possess, and they use the 
power of persistence and constant opportunity, of 
access to the ear of their employers, to disparage the 
landscape architect and his works ; thus the latter 
comes to look upon the gardener as a probable foe 
and as a stupid and insidious one, and uses his author- 
ity to cajole, or more likely, to ignore and override 
the gardener, suspects him sometimes when he does 
not deserve suspicion, and treats him with an arro- 
gance that perhaps serves its present, but injures its 
future purposes, and widens the breach instead of 
bridging it. 
.Such a state of things is very absurd and deplor- 
able; for these enemies who walk around each other 
in mutual defiance and suspicion are attached by a 
chain of mutual dependence that they cannot break. 
The landscape architect could hardly exist without 
the gardener to carry out and maintain his ideas ; and 
without the landscape architect to initiate and author- 
ize at least the outlines of any large scheme, the gar^ 
dener would often be hopelessly struggling with un- 
certainty for want of a definite idea ; not having had 
