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gave us some splendid effects informally twined about the 
pillars. In digging we secured so small a proportion of root 
that we feared for good results, but were agreeably surprised 
by their ability to respond, producing ample foliage and seem¬ 
ingly little the worse for their transplanting, other than a 
somewhat curtailed growth. It may be good news to many to 
learn that Grape vines, seemingly no matter how old or long 
established, can be moved successfully if a little extra care is 
exercised. My own experience indicates that it is better to 
do the transplanting in the early spring in locations where 
severe winters obtain, rather than in the fall. For many 
garden effects, both ornamental as well as useful, and in many 
instances combining both. Grape vines are well worth con¬ 
sidering. 
Another vine used on this particular arbor planting is 
Ampelopsis arborea, a very vigorous growing climber with 
pleasing foliage and producing in the fall clusters of cobalt 
blue berries liberally massed. Two extra large plants of Eng¬ 
lish Ivy, which had previously done duty in a living room, helped 
by lending maturity to this planting, adding a pleasing contrast 
with their firm, rich foliage to some of the other effects of a 
more lacy character. Happily, we had two rather leggy plants 
of the native Pitch Pine which could be spared for replanting, 
and when these were set close together, and the tops fanned out 
somewhat, they added much by their picture value. A search 
about the garden developed also the presence of three flowering 
Dogwoods which had been growing a number of years along 
the edge of a thicket and had long ago lost any suggestion of 
what is usually termed “specimen” development. When these 
three were grouped together, the amount of picture value they 
developed was almost startling, bringing one consciously near 
the Japanese conception of the importance of line in garden 
composition. Part of my collection of rare Japanese dwarf 
plants was also pressed in service with very happy effect, as will 
be seen in the accompanying photograph which shows a fine old 
Juniper (Juniperus procumbens); at center and an old white 
Azalea (R. ledifolium) at right. 
The treatment throughout is quite informal—purposely so— 
to modify what might otherwise have appeared the too severe 
outlines of concrete columns and pergola overhead. 
A rocky effect created by using boulders bordering the 
paths and steps gives opportunity for the planting of various 
Ferns, Sedums, and other rockery plants. These plantings in 
turn help materially in adding a quick expression of maturity 
to the general picture. Of course, where rapid and luxuriant 
growth is expected, the soil must be not only very well en¬ 
riched, but also well drained, the latter being a most important 
feature. 
Where materials are employed as freely as in this instance, 
radical trimming, especially after the first season, is imperative; 
otherwise the growth will become too assertive and much of 
picture value will be lost. He who gardens intensively, using 
green things liberally, has ever before him the certainty that 
knife and pruning shears must be used fearlessly to keep the 
proportions and disposition of foliage within definite bounds. 
With a well conceived idea of what really constitutes the 
gardener’s part in creating beauty out-of-doors, and with the 
love of nature as a guide, the wonderful possibilities the gar¬ 
den offers for personal expression are unlimited, and it is not 
surprising that so many people with abundant initiative and 
appreciation of beauty find the garden ever luring them to 
higher triumphs. 
A FAMILY OF FLOWERING PLANTS THAT REALLY 
LOVE THE SHADE 
LOUISE BEEBE WILDER 
Author of “Adventures In My Garden and Rock Garden,’’ “Colour In My Garden,” etc. 
P HE plaint is, frequently, that so few things grow well in 
the shade; and shaded borders and gardens where there 
are many trees generally bear witness to this theory 
by being poorly furnished and rather forlorn. The 
majority of American gardens are new, and therefore often 
without established trees, and even when choice of the garden 
site is possible the sunny situation is nearly always chosen in 
preference to that which is shaded; so that thus far our interest 
and investigation have been chiefly concerned with sun-loving 
plants. Now, however, that we are beginning to appreciate the 
pleasure to be found in rock gardening and in growing plants 
“naturally,” the value of the shady situation is becoming mani¬ 
fest, for we realize that there are entire families of delightful 
plants whose health and happiness is dependent upon being 
protected from the sun, and many more that are entirely tolerant 
of a considerable amount of shade. 
Among plants fitted to grow in shade none are more desirable 
and useful than the various members of the Corydalis family, 
many of them accepting shade or sun with equal content and 
having the added virtue of prospering where the soil is very dry. 
Beautiful feathery, or fern-like foliage, light yellow-green or gray 
in tone, is the most striking feature of these plants, though the 
blossoms of all the kinds are very pretty and usually continue 
over a long period. All are easily raised from seed, are easily 
maintained or maintain themselves by self-sowing, are hardy 
in the vicinity of New York, and fill many uses in either the 
shady or the sunny garden. They belong to the Poppyworts, 
and are closely related to the Dicentras, of which family the 
old-fashioned Bleeding-heart is so important a member. 
Corydalis aurea is a little annual found in thin woodland 
from Maine southward to Pennsylvania and west to Wisconsin 
and Nebraska. Its pale green leaves are delicately cut and 
divided, and its bright yellow flowers are fully an inch long and 
continue to develop throughout the summer. I cannot learn 
that seed of C. aurea is to be had in this country, but as it is not 
at all rare in many localities it is to be hoped that it will soon be 
available through some source. It is extremely pretty and, 
once established, seeds freely. 
C. bulbosa, the Holewort, is chiefly valuable because of its 
very early flowering. The first mild days in April start its gray- 
green buds pushing through the soil, and before the first Daffodil 
has expanded it is shaking out its little lavender blossoms above 
the grayish foliage. Its height is about eight inches and though 
it is not at all showy, it is very graceful and charming grown 
among the earlier-flowering Daffodils in the rock garden or along 
the edges of shaded borders. It blooms for full three weeks 
and then dies down entirely, not to reappear until the following 
spring. A native of the warmer parts of Europe, its hardiness 
