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House & Garden 
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Building the Hardy Border 
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lo realize that instead they have be¬ 
come all the more interesting from be¬ 
ing old, and we find ourselves looking 
forward to their recurring seasons as 
we anticipate the visit of an old friend. 
In time, associations come to hover 
about them, as about the old books 
on our shelves and the old haunts that 
we frequent. For the more prosaic 
there is the scientific interest in com- 
iraring the growth and performance of 
one year with another. By all means 
keep a notebook! 
An established border furnishes a sur¬ 
prising quantity of flowers for cutting. 
Armfuls of bloom are taken from my 
own border almost daily, and yet it is 
one of the points of greatest interest in 
the whole street throughout the season. 
Necessary Space 
The notion seems widespread that to 
have such a border one must necessarily 
have a large place, which is not, after 
all, a prime requisite. The most effec¬ 
tive location for such a planting is, 
probably, along the far edge of the 
lawn, where it will be viewed mainly 
from the house. This would mean per¬ 
haps along the boundary line of a vil¬ 
lage lot. Such a border may be about 
the foundations of the house, though 
this is of all locations the least desirable 
as it will not be seen to advantage from 
the windows of the house. A backyard 
is a good situation, particularly if one 
can run the border about the yard and 
can spare ground for a bit of green, 
be it never so small, in the center. 
There is nothing more charming than 
a walk between two borders, the double 
border of English gardens, a feature of 
endless possibilities which we in Amer¬ 
ica neglect almost altogether. This type 
of border, however, allows a different 
planting than the more usual single bor¬ 
der, for in this case less thought need 
be given to its effectiveness at a distance. 
One might almost characterize the plant¬ 
ing as more intimate, for it is to be 
seen from near at hand, and the interest 
is more likely to be busied with single 
specimens than with the broad effect of 
the whole. It is this broad effect that 
should always be kept in mind when 
planning and executing the single bor¬ 
der. As it is rnore usually this latter 
type and its problems that confront the 
home builder, I shall confine what I 
have to say to that sort of planting. 
The first principle to remember is that 
the best results are always to be ob¬ 
tained by simple and broad treatment. 
That it is better to paint from a simple 
palette, with a minimum of color mix¬ 
ing, is a maxim equally good for the 
painter and gardener. In either case, 
we are making a picture. The problem 
of the border is complicated by the fact 
that it is a series of pictures we must 
plan for. I can better explain what I 
mean by proceeding at once to the con¬ 
sideration of the several effects aimed 
at in the accompanying plan. 
Succession of Bloom 
Growth in a border starts, of course, 
simultaneously with that of the grass 
and the leaves on the trees. This early 
growth shows a variety of light, delicate 
greens and reddish browns that not only 
are beautiful in themselves, but with 
the great diversity in habit of growth 
and texture and shape of leaf seem to 
make any additional color unnecessary 
if not actually undesirable. In conse¬ 
quence I have not indicated the planting 
of any of the early flowering bulbs, 
such as crocus and tulip. For these, the 
late Cottage and Darwin tulips, and the 
whole race of daffodils, I prefer to find 
room elsewhere. An equally weighty 
reason for their exclusion is that they 
{Continued on page 76) 
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