Three Garden Plans 
Suggestions for Selecting Flowers, Shrubs, and Trees, and the 
Laying Out of Small Suburban Lots 
By ELIZABETH H. FAIRLEY 
PLAN NO. I 
T HIS lot of moderate dimensions does not per¬ 
mit of a wide or varied landscape effect, but 
by careful grouping and selection, a variety 
of color effects can be obtained throughout the year. 
The trees are chosen for their handsome foliage, 
flowers and brilliant autumn coloring. Shrubs and 
hardy plants in the boundaries will give flowers dur¬ 
ing the spring, summer and autumn months, and the 
various colored evergreens will enliven the garden in 
winter. 
The flower beds at the back of the house are for 
annuals which will supply cut flowers and give a 
cheerful aspect to the hack of the house. 
Plant along the fence between the two shrubberies 
crimson rambler roses and the small flowering Clem¬ 
atis paniculata. They will transform the picket 
or iron fence into a thing of beauty. 
The fruit and kitchen gardens will supply an 
ordinary family if the most is made of the allotted 
space by planting successive crops throughout the 
season. 
The fruits I have mentioned are only a guide to 
selection. They embrace early, mid-season, and 
late varieties. Individual taste will no doubt suggest 
other varieties. The prices quoted for stock will be 
found the ruling ones at the leading nurseries. 
PLAN NO. II 
Plan the grounds of the suburban or country 
home, with the object of having pleasure from them 
at all seasons of the year. In substituting small ever¬ 
greens, borders of flowering shrubs and hardy plants, 
for the flower beds of geraniums and coleus so often 
seen, you will have something permanently beautiful 
which will increase in value with age. In the border 
gardens sow seeds of the annuals named, or others 
equally good which will not destroy the harmony of 
color, to fill in during the first season, until the hardy 
plants get established. The prices given are for 
large plants; one large clump of phlox will make a 
much better display than several small ones. When 
possible, plant in the autumn, September or October; 
which gives the plants a chance to get established 
before winter, and they will come up in the spring 
more vigorously than if they had just been planted. 
Have the posts for the rose arches made of red 
cedar with bark left on. They will look more 
artistic than a wire trellis, or iron posts. In the 
country they can be bought from some farmer who 
generally has a quantity of cedars growing on his 
land. The laundry yard has been placed where 
it will be least conspicuous and screened with the 
privet hedge and bush honeysuckles. 
Instead of giving up part of the kitchen garden to 
small fruits it may all be devoted to growing vege¬ 
tables. 
PLAN NO. in 
This small plot has been planned to give as much 
lawn as possible surrounding the house. 
The shrubs are grouped at the end of the lawn and 
so form a screen for the vegetable garden—as well 
as being ornamental to the lawn. 
The fence is to be covered with the small flowering 
white clematis, and the Virginia creeper which grows 
rapidly and its brilliant autumn coloring makes it 
very welcome during the days when the flowers are 
becoming few and far between. 
Hardy plants are to occupy the border at the side 
of the house. Sow seeds of mignonette and sweet 
alyssum between the plants to fill in during the first 
season, until the permanent plants have become 
stocky. 
The above mentioned annuals will not destroy the 
harmony of color. 
The grape arbor, after the vines have covered it 
with their leaves, will afford a cool retreat on hot 
summer days. 
The kitchen garden, and laundry yard, are neces¬ 
sities to all suburban homes. In the vegetable 
garden have the walks wide enough to allow a man 
with a wheelbarrow to pass freely around. 
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