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In a city garden and especially against the warm background of with good effect to bank the entrance to the studio and serves to 
brick walls, it is advisable to have shrubbery that remains green enhance the charming statues done by Mrs. Duryea. This green effect 
the year round. In the garden of Mrs. Harry II. Duryea it is used survives the smoke, dirt and scant sunlight of a New York backyard 
PLANTS FOR A GREEN CITY GARDEN 
Altnough Sunlight Is Restricted Quite An Interesting 
List Can he Maintained Throughout the Year 
> T OTHIXG is more delightful on a 
^ bleak winter's day than to look out 
into a charming green garden where 
once gleamed a white backyard fence with 
a few drear leaves and twigs about. 'I bis 
pleasurable sensation can only be enjoyed 
by choosing plants that remain green. 
In the spring my city garden is a thing 
of delight. Against the deep green of 
rhododendron leaves and dwarf holly gleam 
the crocuses and daffodils. Then come nar¬ 
cissus and tulips, followed by the iris; then 
the rhododendron blossoms. All the lily 
bulbs seem to grow without trouble, particu¬ 
larly lilium speciosum, which blossoms the 
latter part of August and September. 
In the summer I border the forward part 
of the beds with pink geraniums, which are 
repeated in the tubs. Or, after the bulbs 
are quite through blooming, I plant pansies, 
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for these, with constant picking, will last 
through the summer. In the late fall pots 
of chrysanthemums are sunk into the 
ground along the border and these will 
bloom very late. 
This does not mean that you cannot grow 
all manner of flowering shrubs and peren¬ 
nials in a city garden. Forsythia, lilac and 
tulip trees, in fact, almost all the shrubs 
that thrive in a country garden if given 
proper care will live in the city provided 
they are not in the midst of smoke and dirt. 
I can especially recommend the Japanese 
yew as being the most satisfactory shrub for 
a city garden. The rhododendron' and 
Abies Nordmanniana are lovely in color 
and have proven successful. I still main¬ 
tain, however, that the most satisfactory 
garden is the green one, as this may be en¬ 
joyed throughout the year. 
Do not forget the vines when you are 
planning a city garden. They do very well, 
the hardiest qnd most satisfactory being 
wistaria and Virginia creeper. Tree ivy 
with its lovely white blossoms in August 
and blue berries in the fall is too pictur¬ 
esque to be neglected. I can also recom¬ 
mend the hardy ivy tree. 
The best way to make a green city garden 
thrive is to add each year some rich soil, 
mixed with rotted manure. 
The shrubs which will keep green all win¬ 
ter and still be beautiful during the summer 
are: Japanese yew, rhododendrons, Abies 
Nordmanniana, wistaria, Japanese ivy, 
dwarf arborvitae, box, holly, Ilex verticillata, 
Euonymus radicans, actinidia, dianthus, 
German iris, yucca, kalmia, Ilex crenata, 
Leucothoe. Scotch pine, retinospora squar- 
rosa. 
