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HOUSE & GARDEN 
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Box H 
The Value of a Definite Plan 
(Continued from page 15) 
Shrubs can be secured which will 
give a dense foliage and a profusion 
of flowers through the summer and 
which have berries and color value 
that impart a cheery warmth through 
the winter. We should place the up¬ 
right shrubs in the rear and the 
smaller ones in front. 
Plant densely at the corners and 
at the angles of the house, but here 
and there leave views of the founda¬ 
tion for variety and at the same time 
to show the passer-by the stability of 
the foundation. One should be care¬ 
ful not to select shrubs that do not 
harmonize with the house. It is a 
safe rule in foundation planting that 
the shrubs which have bright foliage 
should be placed in front and the 
dark green shrubs in the rear. 
After the masses and heights have 
been decided upon the planting plan 
may be made. It is best to draw 
elevations of all shrubbery masses so 
that the varieties may more easily be 
selected. The selection of shrubs 
should be made from a list indige¬ 
nous to the locality and should he care¬ 
fully selected as to height, foliage 
value and flowering qualities. 
When the planting plan is finished 
one will have a set of plans complete 
for the average place; and one's 
energy and finances may be so con¬ 
served that with every succeeding 
year the place may be made more 
beautiful. 
How Does Youi 
(Continued f 
The tallest plants, whether peren¬ 
nial, annual or biennial, must take 
the back seats, naturally; thus we 
know approximately where each will 
go. Delphiniums and digitalis and 
the lilies will be the background 
masses, these all being 3' or over in 
height, save certain of the lilies. Next 
come the short lilies and the cam¬ 
panulas; phlox naturally falls into 
the position before these, with the 
pyrethrums in front of it, or poppies 
or stocks or zinnias, providing these 
be in colors that harmonize. This 
must be very carefully considered, 
for there are some very quarrelsome 
colors in the phlox family, and in 
some of the others, too. Scarlets and 
mauves are the ones most likely to get 
us and the garden into trouble. 
Plants best arranged in clumps are 
the iris, peonies, phlox, pyrethrums, 
poppies, stocks, asters, zinnias and 
campanulas. The others lend them¬ 
selves better to rows or masses in 
long lines, although even such ar¬ 
rangement should be varied by por¬ 
tions more thickly massed, unless the 
general scheme is distinctly formal. 
Do not feel, either, that the tallest 
plants must he absolutely confined 
to the background; generally speak¬ 
ing, they must of course he massed 
there, in order for lower growing 
things to be seen. But a delphinium 
or a foxglove may be permitted to 
invade the front ranks now and then, 
with natural irregularity and not 
over-frequently, to make a sharp, 
clear note in the composition. 
Delphiniums and campanulas in 
close proximity are exquisite, pro¬ 
viding it is the pink form of the 
latter you are using. Otherwise keep 
them well apart, for their blues do 
not enhance each other's value, and 
in white they offer no special color 
novelty with blue. The pink and 
blue combination, however, is one of 
the loveliest things you can arrange 
for in the garden. Iris in almost any 
of its colors combines well with peo¬ 
nies, and the character of the two 
plants is an excellent foil one for the 
other. The low-growing iris make 
an edging that is very effective for 
a long border, and their lance-like 
leaves are decorative even when there 
are no blossoms. 
Phlox and lilies are particularly 
good together, when the former is a 
white variety and the latter a gold. 
Keep the maroon and mauve shades 
of phlox carefully apart from every¬ 
thing else, however; for almost noth¬ 
ing will be at peace with them. As a 
r Garden Grow? 
rom page 36) 
matter of fact, the only reason for 
planting these is for a striking and 
unusual color mass; singly or in small 
groups, or combined with any other 
flower, they come dangerously near 
to being downright ugly. Even white 
flowers do not improve the situation. 
They demand all or nothing. 
Digitalis is another flower that 
should be given a place to itself. It 
deserves this distinction for the sake 
of its serenely dignified beauty. A 
mass of them is of unapproachable 
aloofness; and they should be given 
this aloofness, in justice to them. If 
you have no separate place suited to 
them, set them above all else by let¬ 
ting only the low growing things come 
near them. This will approach the 
distinction they merit. 
Petunias, being so feeble in their 
understandings, are almost a pros¬ 
trate growth, although having fairly 
lengthy stems; so they really must 
have a place well to the fore, if they 
are to he shown at all. They may, 
indeed, occupy the very front of a bor¬ 
der, although they are so floppy 1 do 
not quite like to put them there. Just 
back of an edging of the low iris they 
will not produce quite such a scattered 
effect. 
Zinnias and Dahlias 
Be very sure that you do not get 
a mixture in buying seeds of zinnias, 
though taken in a single color selec¬ 
tion there are few flowers that will 
give greater satisfaction than these 
old-fashioned old-timers. And any 
color that you may prefer is good, 
although my own preference is white, 
the salmon pink or the deep scarlet. 
There are not many flowers in a good 
shade of this latter color : dahlias are 
about their only rivals. 
Unless there is considerable space 
in your garden where you can afford 
to have nothing over a long period, 
do not try to grow dahlias, lovely 
though they are. They take up a 
great amount of room, they do not 
begin to blosom until well on into the 
summer, and they have absolutely no 
value as a garden flower. For cut¬ 
ting they are without a peer, of 
course, but in the garden, they are 
about on a par with sunflowers. And 
it is the way your garden grows, bear 
in mind, that we are considering; not 
how many cut flowers gathered in it 
vour vases are to boast when summer 
comes. Such a garden as we have 
here planned, however, will supply 
all the flowers you will want for the 
house. 
