April, 1914 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
301 
Up the Hill to Our House 
(Continued from page 276) 
White fox glove, bleeding heart and 
fuchsia lend their touch of quaintness. 
The lavendar funkia increases in perfec¬ 
tion each year as the clump grows heav¬ 
ier. No garden is complete without lemon 
verbana, rse geranium, heliotrope and 
the old-fashioned clove pink. 
Veronica is most effective when placed 
in a thickly planted bed, yet the graceful 
stem with its sky-blue flower is charming 
mingled with the delicate green of other 
plants. This also applies to red pentste- 
mon, which has none of the garishness of 
other red flowers. It blooms soon after 
veronica; therefore a bed with this com¬ 
bination can hardly be improved upon. 
I mention my yellow lilies and Golden 
Glow with a feeling of defiance for those 
who scorn them. To me they have been 
friends in need. The first summer the 
drains about the house were eyesores with 
their grassless rims of hard pan thrown 
there by the workmen. I replaced some 
of this by top soil, but did not find time to 
have deep beds made. I tried one flower 
after the other, but all died. Discouraged, 
I planted the lilies. They alone seemed to 
revel in the worst abiding place in the gar¬ 
den, and transformed the drains into 
places of deceptive attraction. That first 
season a neighbor gave me of her over¬ 
flowing Golden Glow. I had planted these 
near the house, but after having made 
their acquaintance, the following spring I 
treated them politely, but with few words 
walked them down the hill. Our small 
cement stable, pump house and chicken 
coop being in plain view of the house, I 
fretted over their unclad appearance. I 
could not buy more shrubs, as it would 
take many and large ones to screen these 
buildings. In their place, I planted my 
Golden Glow in a long hedge about ten 
feet up the hill. It grows very quickly 
each season, and has made a most satis¬ 
factory screen, permitting only a view of 
the stable roof. I11 fact, it has filled its 
position so well that I have long delayed 
ordering the hemlock hedge for a perma¬ 
nent feature. 
The subject of vines is a pleasant one 
to dwell upon. They furnish interest out 
of all proportion to the money invested, 
and require the least trouble except the 
planting, if trouble this could be called. 
With an eye to the distant future, I placed 
three wistaria plants, five Dorothy Per¬ 
kins, and four ampelapsis about the house. 
It was marvelous how they jumped up 
the first summer. The next winter was 
fiercely cold and some of my vines died 
down several feet. The ivy on one end 
of the house had grown in a very pretty 
shape, a thick tapestry of green pointing 
highest in the center. Our living room 
fireplace was behind its home wall, and 
during the cold October days we indulged 
in many blazing fires, to which I attribute 
the death of the main branch of this ivy. 
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