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House & Garden 
Berkey & Gay 
FURNITURE 
of Old’Time Charm 
Intimate Pieces 
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T HIS very interesting group, for library or living 
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Bookcase . $115 Easy Chair (Tapestry) . $75 
Table- 100 Armchair ClTciZ lack) ♦ 48 
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to measure furniture value. Henceforth you may buy, secure in 
the knowledge that you are receiving quality and design of the 
highest order, at a price which is not only standard, but which is 
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The Beauty of a Golden Garden 
(Continued from page 75) 
flowers, were used in back of the cal¬ 
endulas. Calendulas are so striking 
and effective that they can be used 
with green foliage in a way that some 
purely yellow flowers can’t. 
The cream spiraea has just the tone 
that goes well with yellow and orange; 
but the color must be chosen with 
great care. There are some plants like 
eupatorium, the thorough-wart, with 
its attractive foliage, hesperis or sweet 
rocket, and the white South African 
daisy, which should be better known 
in this country, that are splendid for 
a white August garden, but when you 
put them in a yellow garden, you find 
the white of eupatorium too white, 
the white of hesperis too blue, while 
the African daisy has a brownish 
tinge. Spiraea, on the other hand, is 
just right and gives an invaluable elu¬ 
siveness to the garden. 
I have been mentioning the flowers 
of the second line, so to speak, first, 
and, to tell the truth, they are easier 
to manage than the flowers along the 
edge, though not quite so fascinating. 
There is always something peculiarly 
intimate about these smaller edging 
flowers. And in Mrs. Lane's border, 
there was a good deal of the charming 
cbeiranthus allionii, the Siberian wall¬ 
flower, exactly the same burnt-orange 
as the calendulas, alternating and at 
times replacing them along the edge, 
low all-over and even in effect, with 
little four-petaled flowers. They are 
general favorites in Europe, but only 
exquisite little strangers in this country, 
though they would grow willingly if 
given half a welcome. And with these 
two burnt-orange flowers, there were 
pale yellow evening primroses, slipped 
in here and there as though they were 
very scarce instead of the little en- 
croachers they are. There were clumps 
of the golden bedder, calceolarian, little 
bunched lady-slipper-like flowers, a 
few early yellow chrysanthemums, and 
the sunroses that have such a profu¬ 
sion of flowers in hot weather. Not 
all flowers love hot weather as sun- 
roses do and have leaves and stems so 
fond of the cold that they are called 
frostweeds. But that is one of the 
things I was especially interested in. 
There were mimulus along the edge 
of the garden; yellow trumpet flowers, 
something like the snapdragons, but 
precious-looking like the salpiglossis, 
and beautifully patterned, as with 
batik, in marvelous reddish browns. I 
must admit that for all my insistence 
upon a healthy lavishness for my 
main-effect flowers, I was ready to 
pamper and nurse the mimulus, they 
looked so amazingly rare and high-bred, 
as though they were textured in a 
world too tender for our human 
dreams. But the mimulus are quite 
unspoiled, quite athletically modern. 
Some of the finest plants have been 
self-sown on a rubbish heap, and 
their seeds have such vitality that they 
will germinate years after they have 
fallen by unpromising waysides. 
In addition to the foregoing, there 
is a great variety of plants from which 
to make up a golden garden such as 
this one of Mrs. Lane’s. In fact, a 
complete list of the yellow and orange 
flowered perennials alone is so long 
that only a few typical kinds can be 
given here. To begin with one for the 
back of the border, there is the tall 
American senna with its yellow pea¬ 
like flowers blooming in July and Au¬ 
gust against the lovely mass of its finely 
cut foliage. Both this perennial and 
the fern-leaved yarrow, which grows to 
a height of 4' to S' and blooms yellow 
in July, are somewhat too coarse in 
their habits of growth to be set in a 
border of small dimensions or in a 
garden whose tendencies are toward 
refinement; but in an appropriate en¬ 
vironment they are splendidly effective. 
One of the finest of the perennials, 
one that has both neatness and bulk, 
is golden-spurred columbine. It grows 
to a height of 3' or 4', and sports 
flowers and leaves as lovely as any in 
the garden. Tritoma, too, or red-hot- 
poker, with its flame-colored, torch-like 
bloom, should be considered an ingre¬ 
dient as necessary in the garden as 
seasoning in food, for it adds a zest 
to a border like a dash of cayenne. 
Then there is butterfly weed, a clump 
of which will glow in mid-summer like 
a sheet of red hot iron. It should be put 
in the middle ground of the border and 
in such quantity that it can make a 
stunning effect. After it has finished 
flowering the space it leaves will have 
to be hidden or filled, for it is one of 
the plants which know only the ex¬ 
tremes: it flourishes or it languishes 
and when it droops it is unsightly. 
Two splendid low-growing plants for 
the edge of the border which will main¬ 
tain the color of the golden garden are 
the early spring blooming basket of gold, 
alyssum saxatile compaction, and the 
buttercup-like Spring Adonis jasmine 
should be grown to drape gracefully 
over the enclosure to the garden if the 
enclosure is a wall or lattice, and, for 
very much the same sort of early yellow 
bloom, forsythia or golden bell might 
be clumped in certain corners. If the 
borders are roomy enough to contain 
shrubby plants an ideal one to combine 
with the herbaceous perennials is the 
yellow flowered corchorus, kerria japon- 
ica. It is a shrub that may also be 
used on either side of a gateway or 
arbor. If climbing roses are to be used 
in the garden they should be selected 
from the yellow blooming varieties. 
Likewise, if there is a pool, it should be 
planted, like the pool in Mrs. Lane’s 
garden, with yellow and flesh-colored 
lilies. 
In this way a generally golden color 
scheme may be consistently carried out. 
It is probably the best of the planning 
arrangements in flowers of a similar 
tone, for the gorgeous effect of all the 
yellow and orange blooms against the 
various shades of green in the foliage 
can never become monotonous. 
