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HENDERSON’S PICTURESQUE GARDENS 
Artistic Bedding Well Placed 
Design bedding never looks better than as a lawn 
adjunct to architecture, and the pretty bed shown 
below is especially well placed. It is composed of a 
groundwork of Sedum acre, with the outlines of the 
scroll-work in Echeveria secunda glauca, which also 
forms the outer marginal lines. The spreading, up- 
right plants are Dracaena indivisa. These form a very 
quiet bed; if something more showy is desired, use 
red Alternanthera, scrolled with the Golden Feather 
variety and margined with Centaurea candidissima. 
Many other combinations are also possible. 
Yuccas on the Lawn 
A bold grouping of Yucca filamentosa is illus- 
trated above. This plant is perfectly hardy, de- 
lighting in rich sandy soil, which, if worked 2 or 
3 feet deep, with plenty of rotted manure incor- 
porated, will grow Yuccas to perfection. Wet soil 
does not agree wfth them. Hardy Yuccas are very 
effective, not only for lawn groups, but for break- 
ing the monotony in shrubbery and hardy borders 
(see page 102). They are also well adapted for 
rock gardens. A fine specimen in Central Park, 
New York, grew on a rocky ledge overhanging a 
driveway, where it boldly cut the sky-line and com- 
manded the admiration of all observers. 
