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House & Garden 
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DRAINAGE FITTINGS 
Are necessary in the home 
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Making An Old-Fashioned Garden 
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among them a white variety seen in 
old gardens, whose small, deeply 
notched florets are much more deli¬ 
cate than the robust newer sorts. 
Another place in August’s pageant is 
given over to bunches of ribbon 
grass and tiger lilies, while the 
monkshood and the hardy Aster 
amellus, the only one mentioned in 
old records, make the autumn inter¬ 
esting. Such a border as this would 
thrive year after year in practical 
neglect, if need be. 
Flowers of the Front Yard 
In Puritan times, to grow flowers 
for their beauty alone was held to 
be, if not a sin, at least a vanity. 
Nevertheless the busy housewife 
found moments in which to care for 
the little fenced-in plot before the 
house kept sacred to weddings and 
funerals, where only the choicest 
plants of that time found admittance. 
The authoritative list is short: 
crown imperials, daffodils, red and 
yellow tulips, poet’s narcissus and 
grape hyacinths, red peonies, purple 
and yellow iris, magenta phlox, Can¬ 
terbury bells, scarlet lychnis or Mal¬ 
tese cross, and day lilies of blue and 
white comprise the list. Surround¬ 
ing the flowers were always a few 
old shrubs—flowering almond in the 
place of honor under the window, 
and Peter’s wreath, sweet shrub, 
flowering currant, snowberry and a 
few choice roses near by. 
Such a mixture would hardly ap¬ 
peal to our ideals of beauty today, 
so many flowers of harmonious color 
and sentiment have been included in 
the plan for the front yard garden, 
which is small enough to be taken 
care of by the housewife of today. 
Detailed interest rather than mass 
effect is the keynote here. The tall 
flowers are grouped promiscuously 
in the centers of the beds with some 
attempt at balance of season, while 
mixed edgings of tiny plants, bulbs 
and fragrant herbs creep over the 
brick-edged paths. Oleanders in 
tubs provide a note of architectural 
dignity, hollyhocks stand in serried 
ranks against the house, hawthorns 
and sweetbriar shut off the street, 
and round about are other old 
shrubs and roses. The plan and list 
explain the succession of bloom and 
the placing of the plants. Such a 
little garden would be a source of 
perennial delight, where each plant 
is a friend for whose coming you 
are ever on the alert. 
In the rear of this garden is a 
typical plot laid out as these orderly 
householders loved to have it. The 
general plan is informal in the ex¬ 
treme and at first glance seems irreg¬ 
ular and disorderly. It was really 
very carefully planned, however, 
with a direct method and a reason 
for every part. True, design as we 
know the word was not much in evi¬ 
dence ; that is, the beds were not 
laid out in shapes for their own 
sakes. But there is proof of the 
most careful design in the sense that 
the garden as a whole served a use¬ 
ful purpose and each plant was 
placed in the location most favorable 
to its growth. 
Behind the House 
As you come out of the rear en¬ 
trance, which is flanked with syrin- 
gas and overgrown box, you look 
directly into a vine-clad arbor whose 
shady edges are planted with a vari¬ 
ety of ferns and wild flowers. A 
tall mass of cosmos screens it from 
the berries on one side, and peonies 
divide it from the lawn on the other. 
At the end is a cloud of smoke bush, 
balanced by a group of arborvita?. 
A glimpse beyond invites you to 
walk the length of the box-bordered, 
moss-grown earth walk that termi¬ 
nates at a seat beneath the over¬ 
hanging apple tree. Picture this path 
in early spring overhung with 
wraiths of blossoming fruit trees, 
edged with broad bands of yellow 
primroses and jewelled with sun¬ 
bursts of tulips, and you have the 
spirit of the old days incarnated. 
To close the vista and give an ap¬ 
pearance of length and seclusion, 
groups of tall shrubs and trees are 
scattered all down the sides of this 
walk; poplars for a tall accent at the 
far corner, arborvitaes in irregularly 
balanced groups, apricot and cherry, 
scarlet flowering quince, Persian 
lilac and the feathery tamarisk, flow¬ 
ering currant and almond, snowballs 
and roses, with cornelian cherry and 
honeysuckle against the fence. 
In big beds back of the primroses, 
annuals in delicate colors furnish an 
abundance of material for cutting. 
First come China asters of shell 
pink, combined with Love-in-a-Mist 
of turquoise blue, poppies and corn¬ 
flowers, pale blue annual larkspur 
opposite flesh and rose-colored zin¬ 
nias, lemon colored snapdragons, 
stocks of yellow rose and lavender, 
terminated with sulphur calendulas 
and deep blue cornflowers, and huge 
masses of hollyhocks around the cir¬ 
cle at the end. 
The Other Divisions 
So much for the main part of the 
design. As you explore further you 
will discover that little paths of brick 
laid in earth mark the various divi¬ 
sions of the garden, terminating on 
the sunny side of the place in a long 
path bordered by grapes against the 
fence with a narrow facing of daf¬ 
fodils where they catch the spring 
sun, and lilies for later effect. On 
the other side of this path is a wider 
border of phlox in some of the 
newer colors, accented at each cross¬ 
walk by clumps of rhubarb, lemon 
lilies or bleeding heart. 
On the opposite side of the plot 
each little walk is terminated by a 
fruit tree—small, so as to cast little 
shade on the beds—and the shady 
side of the fence is devoted to black¬ 
berries. On this side the plots are 
utilized for berry bushes which 
screen the service entrance, a drying 
lawn, vegetables, and a reserve plot 
for hotbeds, seed beds and compost. 
As in the oldest gardens, the borders 
are of cabbages and parsley. 
Some people might wish for more 
vegetables, or to keep one side of the 
place. only for grass and fruit trees, 
but in this instance the lawn is a 
small square next the house where 
one may sit in the shade of a spread¬ 
ing elm. Here are pots of fuchsias, 
rose geranium, lemon verbenas, and 
a carefully arranged planting of 
shrubs, ferns and wild flowers suit¬ 
able for shade. Funkias edge the 
first cross path, while a feathery 
mass of asparagus in the next plot 
closes in the lawn. After an inter¬ 
vening iris-bordered walk comes a 
strawberry bed, then a border of 
pinks.and the children’s garden. 
Here are hazelnuts, cherries and 
funny flowers, like bleeding heart 
and hollyhocks, with which the kid¬ 
dies love to play. Nearby are a bird- 
house and a white mulberry tree for 
our feathered friends. The last plot 
of all is a playground with sandbox, 
swing, “teeter” and tall trees for the 
youngsters to climb. 
Around the kitchen entrance are 
herb-bordered beds wherein the tall 
orange marigold adds an appropri¬ 
ate homely touch. A rear entrance 
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