. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. sthat are not entirely hardy. This buildingis about 36x100 feet in extent, with the backwall some twelve feet high. It is built inthe forest, on a slight slope, the entrancebeing at the lowest side. The walls arebanked up with soil and leaves on the out-side. Light and air are supplied by meansof 24 sash set at regular intervals in theroof. The roof is double. Scattered over the extensive lawns andmeadows, are mauy fine trees and shrubsarranged in masses or disposed singly. Wenoted esp
. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. sthat are not entirely hardy. This buildingis about 36x100 feet in extent, with the backwall some twelve feet high. It is built inthe forest, on a slight slope, the entrancebeing at the lowest side. The walls arebanked up with soil and leaves on the out-side. Light and air are supplied by meansof 24 sash set at regular intervals in theroof. The roof is double. Scattered over the extensive lawns andmeadows, are mauy fine trees and shrubsarranged in masses or disposed singly. Wenoted especially many clumps of hardyshrubs employed in a manner that is not fine thus arranged—they must be vastlymore so in their blooming time. Among evergreens we were impressed bythe beauty of the common Hemlock as itgrows to a height of 20 feet of rounded-conical form. Those who imagine this finenative requires a low wet spot for good de-velopment should see the specimens here onelevated lands. Nearly all conifers do wellhere, some of the most striking specimensbeing the Nordmanns Silver Fir, Sargents J/^. the o^vne^ so choose. The soil at this pointis light, dry and rich which may accountfor the spreading proclivities of the plantwhich usually does little more than holdits own if it does as much as that. Not much attention is paid to the use oftender bedding plants on these grounds, alack which the florists of all men werequick to notice. Still the very absence ofthese in a garden that abounds in so manyfine effects in lawn, hardy flowers, shrubsand trees, should teach us that beautyin gardening is attainable in a verylarge measure by the use of hardy alone. Fig. I. Arrangement of RododendrottJi ahjng Forest dron the Hayes Estate near Boston. Mass.
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