April, 1923 
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In the lily pools, which form an important part of the design in this garden at Manchester- 
by-the-Sea, Mass., such hardy water lilies as the varieties odorata sulphurea and pygmaea 
helvola have been used to maintain the golden-colored scheme 
THE 
BEAUTY OF A GOLDEN 
One of the Most Effective Types of Planting Schemes is That Made 
GARDEN 
Up °f 
Cream-colored ,, Yellow and Orange Flowers 
ANTOINETTE PERRETT 
W E are living in a very active, color- 
loving age. We are drawn toward 
color that is alive and vibrating, and 
it is wonderful to see how we can work 
this new appreciation into our gardens. 
The amazing thing I learned that morn¬ 
ing was that to start a golden garden, you 
need not start with gold at all; for the two 
dominant tones in Mrs. Lane's borders 
were burnt-orange calendulas—the mary- 
golds of Shakespeare’s time—the annual 
Take a yellow garden in August. You 
would quite naturally start it with coreop- summer chrysanthemums, the Northern 
sis or sunflowers or golden 
"low and find yourself all 
tangled up in a deadly 
sameness. I have always 
wanted my little country 
door-yard garden to be all 
golden and friendly with 
yellow flowers, but, curi¬ 
ously, yellow flowers all of 
a tone didn’t give that effect 
at all. It wasn’t until I 
saw Mrs. M. Gardner 
Lane’s yellow borders, on 
her place at Manchester-by- 
the-Sea, Mass., that I knew 
how to go about it. I sat 
down in front of them and 
began to work out my own 
yellow garden all over 
again. That is the beauty 
of gardens. You don’t 
lnw tn livp fra-ovpr ,,,,-0, Masses of calendulas, annual chrysanthemums, coreopsis, day lilies, 
iuie\er nun ond even j n g primroses fill the borders with yellow and orange, while 
your mistakes. for an early effect in the same tones, jasmine drapes over the wall 
Stars, with their cream rays that tone into 
brown and greenish old gold at their 
centers. You’ve no idea how beautiful they 
looked together. 
Another delightful thing is that the 
plants of both the calendulas and the sum¬ 
mer chrysanthemums have a way of grow¬ 
ing in varying heights so 
that there are nice wavy 
lines to their individual 
color masses. There they 
were, then, clumps of cal¬ 
endulas, never over 2' high, 
at intervals in the front line 
of the border, and, alter¬ 
nating with them, clumps 
of taller chrysanthemums 
which kept to the second 
line. Also in this second 
line were clumps of orange 
lilies, golden calliopsis, 
and the taller small-flow¬ 
ered sun flowers; while 
f ergs and the feathery 
cream spiraea, with its elab¬ 
orate leaf, and lots of good 
green foliage of plants that 
had bloomed earlier or were 
waiting for their autumn 
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