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for their winter and sum¬ 
mer effectiveness. 
The central plot of the 
garden has been paved with 
flagstones in the joints of 
which turf is encouraged to 
sprout and various kinds of 
the small succulent sedums 
have been planted. When 
stray seeds from the border 
find their way into these 
crevices and manage to take 
hold and come into flower it 
is well to hesitate a little 
before digging up the 
plants, for they are apt to 
result in a certain uncon¬ 
scious beauty that helps to 
soften and humanize the 
garden. For the same rea¬ 
son mosses should be en¬ 
couraged until, finally, the 
whole surface texture of the 
pavement has become knit 
together with living green, 
delightful alike to the tread 
and the sight. If nature is 
thus allowed to spread itself 
over a stone pavement the 
floor of the garden, in addi¬ 
tion to being more durable 
and much less of a care than 
so much turf, will absorb the 
glare of strong sunlight and 
present, at the same time, a 
texture infinitely more in¬ 
teresting than grass can ever 
hope to attain. 
At the end of the garden 
a wall has been erected, 
capped with a ridge of tiles 
to repeat the color of the tile- 
.4 close up view of the far end of the garden shows the planting of dwarf 
junipers, mugho pines, rhododendrons and azaleas. The paved area has been 
doubly edged with box and English ivy 
A plan of the backyard garden illustrated in the pencil sketches shows the 
way the terrace and arbor have been handled and how entrance is made to 
the basement on the garden level 
paved terrace, and pierced 
with two oak gates which 
lead into the drying yard 
and service space beyond. 
Against a vine-covered lat¬ 
tice panel on the wall a bit 
of garden sculpture has been 
set in a semi-circle of flower¬ 
ing plants. 
The flower borders which 
surround the garden on three 
sides are 5' wide. This is 
sufficient space in which to 
get a splendid and durable 
effect throughout the year by 
using perennials like peo¬ 
nies, iris, columbine, and 
platycodon, which not only 
have a comparatively long 
blooming period, but which 
carry attractive foliage over 
a still longer period. Pansies 
and horned violets should 
be used lavishly among the 
plants near the front of the 
borders to serve effectively 
as a ground cover. 
To strengthen the herba¬ 
ceous planting small shrubs 
should be used at intervals 
in the background. The 
best of deciduous shrubs for 
this purpose is globe-flower 
(Kerria japonica), which is 
neat in habit, never out¬ 
growing its surroundings, a 
mass of living green twigs 
through the winter and of 
yellow flecked grey green 
during its blooming season. 
Snowberry and coralberry 
( Continued! on page 102) 
A wall of this kind, used to separate the garden and the laundry 
yard, may be made of hollow tile and stuccoed. The coping and 
the gateways should be designed to harmonize with similar features 
on the house, such as doorways, sills, and exterior paving 
