April, 
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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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Landscape Gardening on a Small 
Place 
(Continued from page 257 ) 
pink annual phlox Drummondi continues 
to bloom late into aster time, and calendu¬ 
las are still fresh when the last chrysan¬ 
themum has faded. 
Succession of bloom, color harmony and 
arrangement are subtly interwoven. Thus 
analyzed it illustrates the difficulties and 
pleasures in designing the perfect garden. 
It makes clear the reason for many fail¬ 
ures, the source of many delights in gar¬ 
den making. 
It is as easy to enumerate the flowers 
planted in the garden as it is hard to de¬ 
scribe the elusive effects that are attained. 
It is as simple to explain the underlying- 
principles of the garden’s composition as 
it is difficult to analyze its charm. 
A flower garden is a transitory, evan¬ 
escent thing. Without constant, patient 
and intelligent care the whole charm of a 
garden like this one, dependent on so many 
interrelated details, is lost in a year’s time. 
This garden has the monthly supervision 
of the designer. This means not only that 
she can see that it is kept up to the color 
scheme and arrangement as she devised it; 
that she can foretell and forewarn lapses 
of bloom, winter failures and seasonal 
mishaps, but that she can rearrange and 
complete, substitute and devise new color 
effects in minor details which will give 
new interest to the garden without dis¬ 
turbing its old vigor and its stable, con¬ 
stant arrangement. 
1 he oval is box bordered, and then girt 
by a ten-foot wide strip of gravel. Al¬ 
though the plan of the entire layout had 
been carefully studied beforehand, we had 
been, throughout the long and minute in¬ 
spection of the garden, altogether uncon¬ 
scious of the fact that this gravel strip 
was the turn-around. A turn-around is 
so much a matter for practical considera¬ 
tion, a flower garden is so much a striv¬ 
ing for an ideal, that the two seem an¬ 
tagonistic. The harmonizing of these two 
opposing factors strikes not only a clever 
and original note in garden composition, 
but shows a serious understanding of gar¬ 
den art. 
Laundry yards are even more incon¬ 
gruous to flower gardens. With only a lit¬ 
tle space available, the vine-clad lattice 
screen and groups of Arborvitae trees hide 
the close proximity of drying linens which, 
no matter how fresh and clean, are not in 
harmony with flower gardens. 
In developing the principal feature of a 
place there is often a possibility of com¬ 
bining with it a number of secluded 
scenes of a special character. Attached 
to the side of this wide, shallow lot is a 
narrow strip of sloping land which lends 
itself to such use. Subordinated to the 
main garden it must still be related to it. 
One of its long paths is a continuation of 
the longer axis of the main garden. The 
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