August, 1911 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
125 
You may meet it under the name tritoma. 
SHRUBS 
I have space for but a mere list of the 
shrubs you should find in bloom this 
month, with color of flowers: 
Bladder Senna ( Colutca arborescens), 
yellow. 
Blue spirea ( Caryopteris Mastacan- 
thus ), lavender-blue. 
Dwarf Horse Chestnut (S Esculus 
macrostachya) , whitish. 
New Jersey Tea ( Ceanothus Ameri- 
canus), white. 
Staghorn Sumach ( Rhus typhina ), 
dense panicles of flowers, followed by at¬ 
tractive red fruit masses. 
Sweet Pepper Bush ( Clethra alni- 
folia), white fleecy flowers, spicy fra¬ 
grance. 
Hardy Hydrangea (H. paniculata, var. 
grandiflora) , white, turning to pink. 
Rose of Sharon ( Hibiscus Syriacus), 
pink, red and white. 
Making a Garden on a Hilltop 
(Continued from page 109) 
pansies, parsley and even lettuce and a 
few tomato plants found their way into the 
beds. Two beds were bordered with 
gladioli. These were set in trenches ten 
inches deep and cultivated as if they were 
potatoes. 
The mid-summer was perfectly dry. 
One month passed with only a single 
shower. Every week I went over the gar¬ 
den with the wheel hoe. The dust would 
fly under the blade and the work took on 
the character of sub-soil farming. Thanks 
to the deep preparation of the soil that the 
grass roots had made necessary, and the 
constant working of its surface, the garden 
grew in spite of dry weather, and we had 
flowers and salads from it all summer. 
The gladioli were especially fine, much 
better than I have grown from the same 
stock when I have planted them less deep 
and watered them. They grew very tall, 
and stood erect without stakes. The 
flowers were large and perfect. 
When a square garden is set down be¬ 
side a meadow with pine trees on one side, 
a hillside jutting with rocks and covered 
with daisies on another, and blue moun¬ 
tains stretching thirty miles away on every 
side, the masses of flowers must be larger 
and the colors more pronounced than those 
of the garden with a wall about it, or one 
that breathes the air of a city or town. 
This garden could never have a wall: its 
charm is its own, that of being able to look 
past the gay posies to a blue mountain 
background, but the step between meadow 
and garden seemed at first difficult to 
make. However, this is what has been 
done. A path three feet wide goes all 
about the outside of the beds. Beyond 
this, on the south, berry and currant 
bushes have been set in rows. All the 
large stones have been piled by the path 
that skirts the rocky hillside, and clematis 
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