The Garden. Magazine, November, 1923 
147 
Mattie Edwards Hewitt , Photo 
THE REPOSE OF A QUIET POOL AND SOFTENING GREENERY 
In the patio at Mr. James Deering’s Miami home of which another view appears on page 145 
interesting, especially in blossom, and their deciduous period is 
comparatively brief and almost unnoticed in the larger surround¬ 
ings. The Lichee is also a treasure for its picturesque growth 
and valuable fruit. In shrubs almost anything can be used that 
will harmonize with the dominant scheme of the particular gar¬ 
den and the particular purpose of its use. 
In hedge work, for instance, there are two general classes—the 
close, compact, sheared hedge of strictly formal character, for 
which Pittosporum tobira, Laurel Cherry, Severinia, Trisphasia, 
Privets, etc. are indispensable—and the more loose, flowering 
hedges, requiring only enough pruning to keep them in general 
form and proper bounds, for which the following are suggested— 
Chinese Hibiscus of the single type, Oleanders, Bambusa dis- 
ticha, Chalcas, Hamelia, Viburnum odoratissimum, etc. 
In the smaller patio gardens of more formal character the use 
of the double hedge or border will be found particularly interest¬ 
ing'—that is, a larger growing background subject like white 
Oleander with a foreground hedge or border of the more dwarf, 
looser-growing Double Scarlet Hibiscus, if the color combination 
wanted is red and white; or the salmon yellow Hibiscus Euterpe 
makes a good strong background for the lower foreground of 
finer foliaged, small, light blue-flowered Plumbago capensis. 
