Book of Gardens 
51 
If one is for¬ 
tunate enough 
to have an old 
house or a 
new house in 
the old style, 
she can use an 
arched garden 
gate, such as 
this on t h e 
place of Mr. 
and Mrs. Vi¬ 
vian Spencer 
a t Avondale , 
R. I. And she 
can plant 
along the 
fence a box or 
box - barberry 
edged border 
filled with hel¬ 
iotrope, laven¬ 
der phlox and 
pink scabiosa 
mingled with 
lilies and pur¬ 
ple gladioli 
On this same 
place the door¬ 
way garden is 
planted with a 
freedom rem¬ 
inis c ent of 
English cot¬ 
tage gardens. 
There are an¬ 
nuals growing 
in tangled 
masses — yel¬ 
low and or¬ 
ange calendu¬ 
las, flame - col¬ 
ored snapdrag¬ 
ons, richly 
tinted zinnias 
and bronze 
dahlias —- all 
intermingled, 
with here and 
there an en¬ 
livening touch 
of violet blue 
Salvia farina- 
cea 
FLOWERS for the GARDEN GATE -- TWO 
PLANTING SUGGESTIONS for SIMPLE PLACES 
MARIAN C. COFFIN, Landscape Architect 
