HOUSE AND GARDEN 
April, 1913 
edges too, while the leaves of the viburnum are saw-toothed. 
This particular cornel has gray, satiny branches and is very at¬ 
tractive in flower; its fruits are white instead of scarlet, but they 
are borne on scarlet sterns, which set them off beautifully. 
The old-fashioned sweet—heavenly sweet! — syringa is number 
three (Philadelphus coronarius), and it is for its fragrance 
especially that this is included, although it is an attractive, fresh 
green and is free from bugs and blights. No fruits follow its 
waxy blossoms; but it takes its place midway between the back¬ 
ground and the foreground as a very fresh and refreshing speci¬ 
men nevertheless. The spiraea that is next named is growing so 
familiar to everyone that its description is hardly needed here. No 
shrub in the whole garden list is more showy than this when it is 
in blossom, and it lasts well, too. Literally a bank smothered in 
fleecy white, its arching branches make it suitable for the f,ore- 
most position in the group, when one chooses to place it thus, for 
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The first two sections are an entrance driveway and a walk; at the 
at the right is a border in three sections. For key to plans see page 314 
The common deutzias present an abundance of bloom. Gracilis rosea 
has pinkish flowers, while the white form is Lemoinei 
it almost sweeps the ground with its tips, whatever its height 
may be. The foliage is fine and delicate, and the whole habit of 
the bush is dainty in the extreme, notwithstanding its really con¬ 
siderable size. For a short time after the blossoms have fallen, 
it goes through a period of untidy frowsiness owing to the per¬ 
sistence of the dead flower stems; but this is, after all, practically 
but a few days—less if there comes a good rain to beat them off 
—and its airy grace throughout the rest of the year more than 
compensates for these, even supposing its flowers did not. 
Rhodotypos kerrioides is not so well known as it ought to be. 
It has great white, starry, solitary blossoms borne at the ends of 
the branches curiously so that they look straight out from the 
bush at one. Following these there are black fruits that are orna¬ 
mental and persistent; but like the highbush cranberry, I feel 
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The desirable shrubbery grouping should have variety in height—the mass should rise in easy, flowing line and there should be variety in form. The 
mass should never edge a lawn in a single line. This shrubbery is selected for a variety of foliage color and appearance rather than blossom 
