HOUSE & GARDEN 
25 
HOW A GREEN AND WHITE GARDEN SHOULD BLOOM 
yard from the lawn and 
are intrinsically decora¬ 
tive and attractive 
Herbaceous Perennials 
Shrubs 
Bulbs 
Annuals 
APRIL 
1 Arabis alplna 
rock cress 
2 Phlox subulata alba 
white creeping pliiox 
Magnolia stellata 
starry magnolia 
Galanthus nivalis 
Hyacinths, single Roman 
Tulips, early white 
Frittillaria Meleagris, 
alba 
Muscari botryoides alba 
Narcissus, Mrs. Langtry, 
MAY 
3 Iberis sempervirens 
evergreen candytuft 
4 Papavernudicaulealba 
Iceland poppy, white 
5 Viola cornuts alba 
white tufted pansy 
6 Iris orientalis, Snow 
Queen 
7 Peonies, 
8 Digitalis gloxinaeflora 
alba 
Deutzia Lemoinel 
Syringa, lilac 
Marie le Graye, sin¬ 
gle white 
Darwin tulips 
La Candeur, white 
turns rose 
Narcissus poeticus 
poet's narcissus 
JUNE 
0 Galium Mollugo 
10 Lilium candidum 
11 Clematis recta 
herbaceous clematis 
12 Chrysanthemum maxi¬ 
mum 
Shasta daisy 
13 Phlox Arendsii 
Crete, dwarf white 
Rhododendron hybrid 
lioule de Neige 
Philadelphus coronarius 
mock orange 
Exochorda grandiflora 
pearl bush 
Spiraea van Houttei 
Van Houtte’s spirea 
Moss rose 
Lilium candidum 
madonna lilies 
Candytuft 
Sweet alyssum 
Pure white stock 
White nicotiana 
A 11 these last until 
frost 
JULY 
14 Gyposophila panicu- 
lata 
baby’s breath 
15 Achillea ptarmica 
pearl 
16 Phlox suffruticosa 
Miss Lingard, white 
Althea, rose of Sharon 
Jeanne d'Arc. pure 
white 
Lilium speciosum album 
white Japanese lily 
AUGUST 
17 Chrysanthemum uligi- 
nosum 
18 Phlox, hardy 
In depend- 
ence, white 
19 Phlox, hardy 
Frau A. Buchner, 
white, dwarf 
Althea, rose of Sharon 
Jeanne d'Arc. pure 
white 
Hyacinthus candicans 
summer flowering hya¬ 
cinth 
SEPTEMBER AND 
OCTOBER 
20 Boltonia asteroides 
False chamomile 
21 Anemone Japonica 
Clematis paniculata 
Japanese V i r g i n ’ 3 
bower 
Colchicum autumnale al¬ 
bum 
white autumn crocus 
and white garden con¬ 
necting directly with the 
house on its main axis 
of herself. Such a little garden as the one illustrated was 
actually taken care of last summer by a busy mother of my 
acquaintance, with only a man to help occasionally with the 
rough work. This one measures about 35' x 40', and its con¬ 
struction would not be difficult. The beds should be prepared 
with 2' of good loam, well enriched with barnyard manure, 
and top dressed with bone meal, wood ashes and nitrate of 
soda. The walks should be edged with 7/%" boards 5" wide, 
set on edge, sunk in the ground and secured by pegs. This is 
to keep the soil from getting into the paths. Before they 
are set in place they should be stained dark brown, both to 
preserve the wood and for the sake of appearance. 
The numbered plan and the accompanying list show how 
the planting would be arranged in such a garden. The hedge 
is of single white altheas. The flowers resemble a hollyhock, 
last a long time and 
are very attractive. 
Inside the garden, 
for borders and 
edgings to creep ir¬ 
regularly over the 
walk, are used 
arabis, white creep¬ 
ing phlox, hardy 
candytuft, w h i te 
Iceland poppies and 
white Viola cor- 
nuta. The last two 
bloom both in May 
and September. 
The tall things 
placed at the back 
are lilies, foxgloves 
Clematis recta, 
Chrysanthemum 
nliginosum, and 
boltonia. The cle¬ 
matis and boltonia 
will need staking. 
The pure white rho¬ 
dodendron Bonlede 
Neige fills the cor¬ 
ners and two white 
moss roses are used 
for accents. The 
other things are of 
medium height and are placed in such a way that the early and 
late things are well distributed and no large gaps are left 
without bloom at any season of the year. To illustrate: in 
foxglove, iris and peony time, the masses of those flowers will 
be so well distributed that the garden appears to be com¬ 
pletely filled with them; later on, in phlox time, it will appear 
filled with the masses of phlox, and later on with Japanese 
anemones and boltonia. Clouds of finely flowered things like 
Galium gypsophila and Clematis recta are distributed in a well- 
balanced manner throughout the garden. The iris is placed 
next to it, as its long, thin leaves need some softening. The 
lilies and Japanese anemones are in long drifts down the 
length of the garden and across the ends. The other things 
are worked in in masses not large enough to leave large bare 
spaces when they are not in bloom. The idea of planting in 
masses is to repeat 
those masses often 
enough to make 
the bloom appear 
well distributed 
throughout the gar¬ 
den, but the masses 
are not large 
enough to overbal¬ 
ance the rest of the 
garden. No abso¬ 
lute rule can be 
laid down as to the 
number of plants 
to put in a mass; 
it depends entirely 
upon the size of the 
garden. 
The dark green 
foliage is used to 
set off the white to 
the best advantage; 
the dark, glossy 
green of the rhodo¬ 
dendron, the pe¬ 
onies, the rose 
geranium and ferns 
will do this. The 
whole effect should 
be one of contrast. 
( Cont’d on p. 64) 
A border of white phlox effectively massed against the trees and 
shrubs at the back of the lawn 
