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THE COTTAGE GARDEN IDEA 
{Continued from page 100) 
low; likewise, the flags will develop green 
joints of turf. Both should be laid without 
cement on a sand base. 
In choosing and arranging the plants 
for the cottage garden particular care 
must be taken to make every foot of 
flower bed count. Duration of bloom 
must be considered, and so must duration 
of foliage. There won’t be roomfora great 
number of plants, or for a great variety. 
For an average situation it would be 
difficult to find ten perennials more satis¬ 
factory in every way or more consistently 
in character with the cottage garden idea 
than the following: 
1. Delphinium, preferably bella donna, 
because of its graceful spikes of gorgeous 
blue, blooming twice during the season. 
It must be staked and it must be cut back 
almost to the ground after the first 
blooming, but it is worth the trouble. 
2 . Peony, preferably a single pink, 
though the color and the form is a matter 
of individual taste. The single seems 
more to reflect the simplicity of the cot¬ 
tage garden than the double. The plant is 
quite indispensable, not only because of 
the beauty of its blossom, but also be¬ 
cause its foliage is permanently attractive 
from spring to fall. Its space is never 
barren. 
3. Phlox, preferably the Miss Lingard 
variety which is pure white with a pale 
pink eye. There are many more colorful 
varieties but there are few that bloom so 
well and for such a long time. 
4. Columbine, preferably the variety 
Aquilegia chrysantha, which grows to 
18" and sports a mass of spurred yellow 
flowers. 
5. Aster, preferably the variety novi- 
belgii, Mrs. D. Evans, which has large 
showy, azure blue flowers, in unusually 
close formation, stands about 3 ' high, and 
blooms from September to frost. 
6. Chrysanthemum, preferably the 
large yellow Globe d’Or. 
7. Dianthus, preferably the familiar 
plumarius in the variety delicata, which 
is a blush pink and blooms profusely. 
The gray green foliage is perhaps the 
most decorative in the border, and it is 
persistent. 
8. Iris, preferably a fine clear blue 
from the germanica section. 
9 . Tulips, preferably Clara Butts, 
though there are other favorites for other 
tastes. These to be set against the house, 
and in clusters throughout the border 
for springtime display. 
10 . Harebell, the little campamda 
carpatica, both in blue and white, to use 
where low plants are needed at the front 
of the border. 
Of the choice of annuals to be used there 
need be no end, but the list should cer¬ 
tainly include zinnias, marigolds and 
China asters. These three might be given 
as much importance in the border as the 
perennials, while other lovely but unspec¬ 
tacular annuals might be used to fill in 
where perennials have subsided. 
THE GARDEN OF SWEET PERFUMES 
{Continued from page 72) 
Donn Byrne says is like “sustained mu¬ 
sic” as if he thought it more wonderful 
even than its blossom wealth. There is 
boxwood that Holmes says breathes the 
“fragrance of eternity.” Surely these 
varied fragrances are not for themselves 
alone, nor for idle use, but rather for the 
memories they awaken, the impressions 
they create, the pleasures they anticipate, 
the enchantment they invoke. 
Intangible and elusive as they are, 
fragrances have associations of many 
kinds. They call up pictures of many 
climes and many countries. There is 
never a tiny whiff of hawthorn but vis¬ 
ualizes English lanes in May time, pic¬ 
tures English gardens during spring, 
typifies England itself. 
Fragrances are inseparably mingled 
with the character and habits of plants. 
Is not the cool greenness of boxwood the 
very keynote of its fragrant charm? Does 
not each tiny bell of lily-of-the-valley 
tinkle the pure delicacy of its fragrance? 
Is not the fragrance of pinks indefinably 
mixed up with the careless mats of spread¬ 
ing grayness along the edges of paths? 
There is an ever-blooming white variety 
of Dianthus plumarius that I love to use 
in gardens, not half so much for its luxu¬ 
riant bloom in June as for its more delicate 
aftermath of scattered blossoms. Far 
into October its half-opened buds are 
sweetly scented. 
Fragrance is inseparably mingled with 
flower color. Think of all the perfumed 
loveliness of nicotiana, honeysuckle, ma¬ 
donna lilies, garden heliotrope, dictam- 
nus; do they not call up memories of 
white flowers glistening in the dark of the 
evening? Or get a whiff of marigolds. 
Does it not suggest gardens of rich and 
varied color; of pungent yellow, orange, 
red; of calendulas, nasturtiums, calliop- 
sis, zinnias, heleniums abounding in 
masses in great sprawling borders? 
Fragrance has a magician’s power, cast¬ 
ing spells and conjuring up through the 
blue mist of memory many an old garden 
and many a forgotten one. By the very 
fragrance of plants, the character, the 
very style of the garden is woven into the 
texture of our day dreams. Roses and 
lilies have ever woven their fragrance into 
garden character. They have long been 
familiar flowers. Old engravings show 
that even the tiniest of gardens nestling 
within the castle walls of medieval days 
had lilies and roses in their miniature 
flower beds. No doubt the flower fra¬ 
grance was more precious to those close- 
confined ladies in the pictures than even 
the loveliness of the flower forms. 
Hyacinths, too, may conjure up stiff \ 
little Dutch gardens of old prints with , 
brick paths between numerous tiny ob¬ 
long beds. Tuberoses were used in great 
quantities in old French parterres and 
there is a story that king and courtiers fled 
the gardens at the Trianon one evening 
for the overpowering scent of them. Tube¬ 
roses call forth quite a different garden for 
me. It is the only garden in which I have I 
ever seen them blooming. It is a garden ' 
of white flowers, not in a solid mass of i 
white but rather as a white pattern |i 
worked upon the delicate green of flower 
foliage, as a delicate white embroidery 
within box edgings. 
Quite different are the associations of I 
primroses. Their fragrance must recall I 
to you, too, enchanting paintings of Eng- I 
lish woodlands where primroses make 
golden carpets beneath the still leafless ' 
trees. ■ 
There are other fragrances, however, to ; 
touch American senses, for the sweet fern 1 
of our woodlands, the bayberry on upland ' 
pastures, the sweet pepper bush along ■ 
streams, the arbor-vitae on our northern 
lowlands, the clover in the fields, the ■ 
flowering wild grape on the roadsides have j 
even lovelier suggestions of our country- j 
side with all the tangled ruggedness of its 
shrub and tree growth. And what is more 
enticing still than the fragrance of the 
needle carpets in our pine woods! 
Dearer, even, to our associations are 1 
the gardens re-created through the slight¬ 
est of boxwood fragrance. Our American i 
senses will not recall the dignified formal 1 
{Continued on page 104) ' 
