A Landscape Garden on a Small Scale 
By MYRTLE HYDE DARLING 
A FARM about a mile from Nashua, New Hamp¬ 
shire, was purchased for a suburban residence 
as an electric car route passes it with frequent 
service. At first the farmhouse was used as a home, 
but later was removed to the rear of the grounds at 
the extreme right, and a modern house was built. 
The farmhouse was finally destroyed by fire, and by 
the wishes of the owner’s wife, a building to accord 
in design with the new house, intended for use as a 
tea and reading-room, was erected on the second site 
of the old house. It is situated on a slight rise of 
ground and in summer, even on the hottest day, a 
breeze clings about it so that the lodge is popular 
with all the members of the family. 
The beautiful garden, laid out with a particular 
view to the most attractive results from landscape 
gardening, has many visitors. The hedges surround¬ 
ing it on three sides are different. I hat in front of 
the house is the Japanese burberry (the corrupted 
form is “barberry”). This shrub, with pendent 
foliage, is a more delicate, slower grower than our 
native wild shrub, and the yellow blooms, followed 
by the red fruit, hang singly on the stem, and not in 
clusters, like our native plant. 
On the left of the grounds a white posted, modern 
fence marks the boundary line, and is partially 
hidden by a rose hedge. The other hedge on the 
right of the estate is of lilacs, of which there are 
ninety varieties and which display superb masses 
of color in May. Lilacs, whether the Persian, vil- 
losa, or the late-blooming tree species, as Pekinsensis 
or Japonica, do not require pruning, except for 
suckers from the old stocks if they have been grafted. 
I hese growths should be removed as soon as seen. 
A garden needs study to train it as it should be, in 
ordeqto make excellent effects and harmonies. 
Two old apple trees which were on the farm still 
stand in front of the house, retained for the beauty 
of their spring blossoms. At the left is the garden 
of annuals, where stocks, marigolds, asters, and other 
garden posies fill the beds. (The China aster or 
Reine Marguerite was first known in 1731.) In 
front of the house grows a dwarf mulberry tree, a 
Japanese shrub. The piazza is partially shaded by 
a half canopy of the Clematis pamculata, which shows 
in early autumn fine clusters of feathery flowers like 
snowflakes, and the fruit of this vine is attractive as 
well as the flower. 
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VIEW FROM THE ROAD SHOWING EVERGREEN TREES 
