HOUSE AND GARDEN 
April, 1914 
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Baroque Architecture 
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A period of art which is attracting a good deal of interest and about which 
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The Special Uses of Garden Plants 
(Continued f rom page 264) 
year, although most of them bloom in the 
spring, and perennials may take up the 
color sequence in the garden. If you keep 
in mind the necessity of flowing lines you 
will be successful in shrubbery planting. 
Note how a coast line is irregularly in¬ 
dented by bays and sends out peninsulas 
and points or capes. This is the effect 
shrubs should give. Keep in mind the de¬ 
sirability of using few varieties together. 
The great, white masses of snowball or 
spircca, shaded with the lilac blossoms, 
make better pictures than where many va¬ 
rieties of form and shade and color are 
mixed. Look through a list for shrubs that 
are beautiful for their berries or bark in 
fall or winter, and strive to use some of 
the low evergreens for borders. There are 
a few specialties that are not in the sub¬ 
joined list, to which you may be partial. 
The flowering almond, with its delicate 
white and pink double flowers, is very 
hardy; then the magnolia, with its cloud 
of great, waxy flowers in the spring, or the 
dogwood, where you have a vista, and 
want the white flowers early in the season 
and the berries later. The sumacs (rims) 
are attractive for fall color, and rims co- 
tinus, the smoke bush, is an old-fashioned 
and pleasing shrub. 
Rhus Canadensis flowers in the spring 
before the leaves appear. This is one of 
the best cover shrubs. It will flourish in 
any soil and is especially adapted to dry, 
rocky banks. Its flowers are yellow. 
Here follows a simple list of annuals, 
and perennials and shrubs, with data that 
will help to fit them in your garden 
scheme: 
SHRUBS 
(Blooming in April ) 
Daphne (Daphne Mezereum )•— Three feet 
high; lilac flowers. 
Golden Bells (Forsythia Fortune i ) — Eight 
feet; yellow flowers. 
(Blooming in May) 
Barderry (Berberis Thunbergii ) — Four feet; 
yellow (berries). 
Flowering Plum (Primus triloba )— Five feet 
high; pink flowers. 
Bush Honeysuckle (Lonicera Morrowi ) — 
Six feet; white flowers. 
Spiraea (Spiraea Van Houttei ) — Eight feet; 
white. 
Highbush Cranberry (Viburnum opolus ) — 
Twelve feet; white (berries). 
Lilac (Syringa vulgaris ) — Twelve feet; 
white and lilac. 
(Blooming in June) 
Shrubby Cinquefoil (Potentilla Fruticosa ) — 
Three feet; yellow. 
Dentzia (Dentzia Crocilis )- — Three feet; 
white. 
Mock Orange (Philadelphus Coronarus)— 
Five feet; creamy. 
Weigelia (Diervilla doribunda ) — -Six to eight 
feet; crimson. 
Red Osier (Cornus sanguinea ) — Twelve feet; 
white (berries). 
(Blooming in July) 
Steeple Bush (Spiraea tomentosa )- — Four 
feet; purple-pink. 
Oakleaved Hydrangea (Hydrangea querci- 
folia ) — Four to six feet; white. 
Panicled Hydrangea (Hydrangea panicn- 
lata ) — Ten feet; white. 
(Blooming in August) 
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