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House &■ Garden 
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IN PRAISE OF THE LITTLE GARDEN 
{Coniinited from page 50) 
.“Vnd loving the small things, we like¬ 
wise come to love the old-fashioned 
things. If you hear someone say, “She 
has phlo.x, heart’s-ease, bachelors’ but¬ 
tons, hollyhocks, sweet william and sun¬ 
flowers in her garden,” you immediately 
want to see those homely old-fashioned 
blossoms. It may have been years since 
you have looked on such unregenerate 
flowery homespun, and you have memo¬ 
ries of your grandmother’s nasturtiums 
and sweet-scented heliotrope and timid 
lavender and rue peeping from the borders 
of graveled paths. You are honestly sick 
of the latest thing in cultivated hothouse 
roses. And just as there is lure in words 
like bombazine and crinoline there is 
something unutterably satisfjdng in the 
spice of common pinks and the simplicity 
of bo.xwood. Surely old silver and blue 
china are more desirable than expensive 
gold plate and modern dishes elaboratelj^ 
decorated. I am not one to praise the 
past, always to the detriment of the 
present; but somehow candlelight—yes, 
even a tallow dip—seems more har¬ 
monious to me anywhere than blazing 
electric brackets. And if it is bromidic 
to care for horses more than for rushing 
motors, then I am happy to be a bromide. 
Yet modernity has its uses, if only to call 
our attention to the large leisure of times 
that have vanished. A formal garden, 
beautiful as it may be, sometimes causes 
us to sigh for a riot of tangled colors; and 
who would not exchange the precision 
of a rich man’s barbered lawn and hedges 
kept up by someone else, for the tiniest 
of hodge-podge Dutch gardens, planted 
by one’s own hands? 
It might be said that a garden is really 
not worthy the name unless one tends it 
oneself. A vicarious delight in flowers is 
comparable to witnessing a rodeo under 
the steel girders of Madison Square Gar¬ 
den instead of under the blue sky of Ore¬ 
gon. boy who' plants a tree on Arbor 
Day will later, perhaps, sit on a civic 
conunittee which will insist that elms and 
oaks line the streets of his town. Some¬ 
thing will abide with him that he would 
be the less manly for losing; for of all 
silly notions in the world, that is the 
silliest which takes it for granted that 
only . women’* should be interested in 
flowers and shrubs and plants. One 
might as well say that there should be no 
masculine pianists and violinists; that all 
poets are epicene. 
To possess one’s own garden, no matter 
how small, is something we should all 
dream of. In my ©wn experience, city 
pent though I am, I know how a certain 
rented backyard with abundant grass 
and a tree and a pergola and a sun dial 
and flagstones through which bits of 
green push up, has been a source of faith 
for cloudy days; how a crooked basin 
where town sparrows may drink has 
proved a silver note in the dull color 
scheme of a granite city. Skyscrapers 
have peered down on this bit of privacy, 
but they have not been able to spoil my 
pleasure, and their encroaching shadows 
fail to rob me of the desire to plant new 
bushes and train young vines over 
dilapidated fences. There is nothing 
quite like “the lure of green things grow¬ 
ing”, in the lovely phrase of Charles G. 
D. Roberts; and though one’s urban 
patch of green may be a joke to one’s 
bucolic friends, it has its high spiritual 
use which one need not speak of; and on 
moonlit nights it takes on all the glamour 
and glory of the sweetest gardens hidden 
away in the soft English hills or along our 
own Connecticut roads. The merciful 
night hides ugly walls of granite which 
would smite, if they could, my smallest 
but most beautiful of treasures; and the 
moon, like a kindly queen, spills her sil¬ 
ver shower on my humble yard in the 
same lavish way that she pours down her 
largess on the rich gardens of Southern 
California. We are not poor, so long as 
we have a love of beauty. 
TULIPS FOR THE MAY GARDEN 
(Continued from page 75) 
.Vmong these paler shades come paler 
shadows. Pensee Amere —soft mauve 
with just enough of pink to melt its 
shadow into the general color scheme, 
and the Reverend Ewhank —slatey laven¬ 
der—as a foil to paler pinks, and the 
stronger shadow Marconi and Zulu- to 
fade out into the general mass. 
As the spring flowers fade their place is 
taken by June’s—all blue and gold and 
white. In the midsummer months come 
quaint mixed colors like an old bouquet, 
and with the fall the autumn’s glowing 
shades. 
LIST OF HERBACEOUS PL.ANTS 
USED WITH TULIPS IX BORDERS 
Aqnilegia Hybrids 
Aster Climax 
.A-ster St. Egw-in 
Aster N. A. Lil Eardell 
Arahis alpina 
Anemone Japonica Whirlwind 
A nemone Japonica Queen Charlotte 
Aconitum Wilsonii 
Boltonia Asteroides 
Boltonia Latisquana 
Bocconia cordata 
Cimicufuga Racemosa 
Chrysanthemum Maximum Alaska 
Campanula pcrsicifolia 
Dicentra plumosa 
Dianthus delicata 
Delphinium Gold Medal Hybrids 
Delphinium Belladonna Hybrids 
Eupatorium coelestinum 
Hoi lyhocks-double Pink-yellow-bla ck 
Helenium aidumnale 
Helenium autumnale ruorum 
Iris Siberica Snow Queen 
German Iris Wyomissing 
German Iris Her Majesty 
German Iris Mme. Chcreau 
German Iris Windham 
German Iris Queen of May 
German Iris Pallida Dalmatica 
German Iris Plorentina 
Japanese Iris Gold Bound 
Iberis sempervirens 
Linum perenne blue 
Myosotis sempcrjlorens 
Phlox Queen 
Phlox Elizabeth Campbell 
Phlox Miss Lingard 
Phlox Nattie Stuart 
Phlox Bridesmaid 
Phlox Jules Sandcau 
Papaver Orientalis Mrs. Perry 
Polymonium Cacruleum 
Physostegia Virginica 
Peony Festiva Naycima 
Peony Margaret Gerard 
Peony Alar gar et A twood 
Spiraea filapendula 
Spiraea vernusta 
Spiraea Japonica 
Thalictrum jlavum 
Tiaillea cordifolia 
Viola cornuta 
Veronica spicata blue 
Veronica spicata white 
Veronica spicata pink 
Veronica Longifolia sub.'iessilis 
Veronica Inc anna 
