February, 1914 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
shall lack nothing from either the hygienic 
Dr artistic standpoint, even when .so 
placed. And of these two, comfort in¬ 
doors ranks higher than the garden’s re¬ 
quirements — for some kind of garden is 
possible in every kind of exposure. 
With the garden designed, the work of 
arranging the planting is already partially 
done — for the design will make demands 
of its own which must be met. Beyond 
these demands, each garden maker is free 
to choose according to his preferences, of 
course; but there is one thing to be said 
that may help in guiding the choice. 
It is this : the number of kinds of things 
which any garden will contain is limited — 
but the number of kinds to which the new 
and enthusiastic gardener aspires ap¬ 
parently knows no limit. This is natural 
enough on the part of the gardener, per¬ 
haps, this desire to grow everything — in 
one small area—that he has ever seen or 
heard of or read about; but it is utterly 
demoralizing to good planting. Many 
kinds together do not produce effective re¬ 
sults whether they be trees or shrubs or 
flowers in a border. Cut down your 
choice in all three of these materials, 
therefore, to the least number of kinds that 
will provide the effect you wish. 
This effect is usually twofold with 
•shrubbery — the mass of green either as 
screen or boundary, and flowers during 
the longest possible period. With trees, 
shade is the principal thing required, 
although trees may also furnish boundary 
or screen mass, color effects, winter 
warmth and protection — and, to a certain 
degree, flowers. But flowers alone fur¬ 
nish just themselves—and we are satisfied 
unless they fail to do this perpetually and 
in the greatest abundance. Each kind 
blooms only its season, however, and 
passes; so of flowers as of shrubs, we 
must allow the garden enough kinds to 
carry on the “bloom procession” all 
through the summer. 
This means, however, only about fifteen 
species — or a less number of species per¬ 
haps, but this number of varieties, thus 
securing plants which do not blossom to¬ 
gether. This is the least number that will 
give an uninterrupted abundance of 
flowers from early spring until late fall, 
after frost; so no less than this number 
should be allotted to any garden, unless it 
is to be permitted a gap. Of these fifteen 
varieties, however, there may be just as 
many plants as the garden will hold. By 
dozens and scores and hundreds they may 
be multiplied and massed, until the effect 
is one of bewildering luxuriance. Many 
of each kind in uninterrupted mass, but 
more of the choicest kinds than of the 
ones you care the least for, is a good rule, 
whether it is a single border beside a walk 
that you are planting or a garden of many 
borders and beds. It is always the great 
color masses that produce the “breathless” 
effects; get as many of these, therefore, 
distributed throughout the summer as 
your garden space will allow; and give up 
the few plants of this and that and the 
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ANNOUNCEMENT 
ever made to the nation at large by any part of the American Lumber Industry, which, as 
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This degree of importance is due, primarily, to the impressive character of the FACTS about 
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TheU.S. Government Forest Service BulletinNo, 88, Junel 7 , 1911 , describes Douglas FIR as 
“PROBABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT OF AMERICAN WOODS’’ 
Douglas FIR is the most universally adaptable wood available on two continents. Its export 
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Douglas FIR, however, not only has the signal values and extraordinary qualities suggested above, but it 
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famous the world over for being true to name and of 
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Climbing Roses 
in many varieties 3 and 4 years old. Transplanted 
1913, their many fibrous roots will produce long canes 
and give immediate results. In fact, most of the plants 
produced many flowers in our nursery last summer. 
have been a leading specialty with us for many years, 
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