HOUSE AND GARDEN 
29 
| July, 1915 
to acquire. Red rambler roses grow over the balustrading, their 
bright colors enlivening the white house. Rose climbers are 
especially good for such position because their branches fall in 
scattered graceful sprays and do not hide completely the design 
of the balustrading. To emphasize the architectural symmetry 
of the house the ramblers are planted on each side of the en¬ 
trance. In front of each rose group the low spreading Spiraea 
Anthony Waterer, with broad, flat, flower clusters, is grow¬ 
ing, the two blooming at the same time. The red of the ramblers 
and the rose color of the spiraea make a curiously effective and 
unusual color harmony. Tall Lonicera tartarica, already fruiting 
at the time the spiraeas are blooming, are planted in a bold mass 
at the northwest corner of the house. They form a high accent, 
good for a corner which is apt to be a bare and windowless 
wall space. The group curves out from the house toward the 
north boundary, where a privet hedge and a solid row of maple 
trees on the neighbor’s lot form a strong high screen. There 
is a break in the shrubbery to allow a grass path to meander 
through it, connecting lawn with kitchen entrance. As it is 
not a real path but only a short cut, the branches of the shrubs 
are allowed almost to meet and merely suggest the break. Van 
Houtte spirseas make an emphatic high spot on the southwest 
corner of the house to balance the loniceras on the other side. 
They are planted also along the south side of the house wher¬ 
ever they do not obstruct the windows. To be quite certain 
that the line of green is not broken, however, Euonymus japonica 
clambers up the foundation walls under the windows. 
The lawn of this enclosed front yard is an uninterrupted 
grass space with no disturbing shrub or tree to break its full 
extent. This is one of the surest ways of gaining an impression 
of size for a small lot. The very fact that the lawn is enclosed 
hides from it all the outside objects which might dwarf it by 
comparison in scale. Moreover, it makes one understand that 
a glimpse of the house through trees, of the doorway through 
frames of green, gives a more pleasing impression of a building 
than a bare and uninterrupted view. It makes one realize that 
frames of trees and shrubs turn bare hot expanses of grass into 
shadowed and secluded lawns. It makes one comprehend the 
meaning of the English walled or hedged gardens and appreciate 
the desirability and advantages of the privacy thus attained. 
The ground back of the house is divided into four parts. 
The simplest kind of a flower garden — narrow beds bordering a brick path. When 
the lattice is covered, this will make a secluded garden walk 
Through the center of the lot runs a flower-bordered path which 
terminates in the vegetable garden. Relegated to the north side 
of the lot, to be near the kitchen, are laundry yard, garage, auto 
run and turn-around arranged in a closely related and efficient 
group. On the south side is a small rectangle called the orchard. 
Enclosed by vine-covered fences, lattice screens, free-growing 
shrubbery or clipped hedges, each subdivision can be treated as 
a part by itself and concentrate 
upon itself all the interest of the 
moment. Each is an important 
and separate factor, but having 
its appropriate share in the de¬ 
velopment of the property as an 
organized whole. 
The garage is connected with 
the house. Many interesting 
problems in house building and 
ground development are now 
arising through the desire of 
weaving house and garage into 
one architectural composition. It 
will do away with the many, 
and for the most part, ugly little 
outbuildings, which spoil so 
many small suburban properties 
where garage and auto run seem 
to monopolize all garden ground. 
The strong concrete firewall be¬ 
tween house and garage so 
diminishes fire risks that insur¬ 
ance companies make no extra 
rates for such construction. 
Japanese barberry and rugosa roses are planted on either side of the porch steps. Red ramblers grow over the balus¬ 
trading; in front of each rose group a Spiraea Anthony Waterer 
