HOUSE AND GARDEN 
February, 1912 
so we felt that something tall should grow 
in the beds on each side. We decided on 
pink and white cosmos as an experiment. 
Also as an experiment, we planted clumps 
of castor-oil beans on each side of the 
front porch. We really need some kind 
of shrubbery there as a permanent fea¬ 
ture, but as we couldn’t afford to put in 
large shrubs and wanted an effect at once, 
we tried the castor-oil beans. The effect 
proved extremely satisfactory. 
Now that our flower beds were filled, 
we took up the question of vines for the 
house. As a result of our deliberations 
we recklessly invested in three Clematis 
paniculata plants, and five climbing roses 
of various kinds, among which the crim¬ 
son rambler was not numbered. (The 
Amateur Gardener doesn’t like it.) We 
also procured some fine honeysuckle, by 
the simple process of going out into the 
woods and digging it up. These things 
were for the future. For present results 
we planted morning-glories all across the 
back of the house. Our cottage is of the 
type which fairly cries aloud for a gar¬ 
ment of vines to bring out its picturesque 
qualities, and some day it’s going to be 
smothered in wonderful climbing roses 
and clematis and honeysuckle. Until that 
day, however, we pin our faith to morn¬ 
ing glories. We planted them thick — so 
there’d be a riot of them. 
When there was no more to do to the 
beds but water them and wait for the 
plants to come up, the Amateur Gardener 
turned Amateur Mason and Carpenter, 
and started on the work he had been long¬ 
ing to get at ever since our garden plans 
were made. This was to make an en¬ 
trance to the terrace garden, and a pergola 
gateway at the top of the steps which lead 
down from the road to our walk. As I 
have said, the lot lies several feet below 
the street level, and the terrace thus 
formed is covered with a growth of 
honeysuckle, grasses and wildflowers. It 
is a charming tangle of vegetation, and 
we decided not to replace it with lawn 
grass. On the terrace grow also several 
young trees, which partly screen us from 
the road, and give to Oifir garden, as 
viewed by a passer-by, the additional 
charm of being seen in snatches, half hid¬ 
den by trees. At the foot of this bank, on 
each side of the steps, which, by the way, 
are railroad ties set into the slope, the 
Amateur Gardener built a dry wall. He 
covered a great deal of surrounding coun¬ 
try in his search for the stones of this 
wall. He would come home, perspiringly 
trundling the wheelbarrow, in which re¬ 
posed a stone of back-breaking propor¬ 
tions, and, he assured me, unusual artistic 
qualities. I would have chosen one less 
artistic and a little nearer home, but no 
doubt my wall would not have been as 
attractive as his is. It looks like a crum¬ 
bling old wall, instead of a brand-new one. 
The pergola entrance looks old too — old 
and quaint and a little Japanesy. The 
Amateur Gardener designed it, and made 
it himself from four cedar posts and two 
dozen bean poles. We planted a bed of 
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