The livable house, its garden . mphasized bythe use of individual trees and bushes. Such points as these offeropportunities for planting the especially fine bush or tree, thegood qualities of which one wishes to exhibit. The corners of flower beds, doorways and gates, avenues—suchprominent places as these call for the picked or specimen plant. Using specimen in the sense of any chosen or carefully selectedthing, there is another sort of specimen planting which is valu-able—that of the tree or bush chosen for its interesting, ratherthan its perfect, form. One example—the very delightful foun-ta
The livable house, its garden . mphasized bythe use of individual trees and bushes. Such points as these offeropportunities for planting the especially fine bush or tree, thegood qualities of which one wishes to exhibit. The corners of flower beds, doorways and gates, avenues—suchprominent places as these call for the picked or specimen plant. Using specimen in the sense of any chosen or carefully selectedthing, there is another sort of specimen planting which is valu-able—that of the tree or bush chosen for its interesting, ratherthan its perfect, form. One example—the very delightful foun-tain at Forest Hills Gardens—will serve to illustrate the charmcontributable by a gnarly twisted specimen which has the pleas-ing look of just happeiTJng. The terrace of the Hoyt house at Southampton has several setsof very pleasing specimens: the old Paulownia trees on either sideof the steps, the yews and the hydrangeas. Incidentally thisplanting is peculiarly suitable to the type of architecture. The [76] / / s G a d n. [77] The Livable House coarse leaves of the trees, the showy flowers of the hydrangeas, andthe evergreens have a luxuriant efifect which is especially appro-priate with the stucco, Italian house. There are certain sorts of flower plantings which come underno general head, and are pleasures to the eye, others which arejust messy and purposeless. Of the first, one of the most pleasingkinds is spring bulbs naturalized in grass. Nothing is lovelierthan narcissus and Virginia cowslip blooming in stretches ofwhite and blue—or the little grape hyacinth flashing its blue nearthe yellow dandelion which flowers at the same time—or massesof purple hyacinths and golden daffodils. Other flowers, for the most part native ones, are good natural-ized in bold groups, or planted in, here and there with the latter kind of planting, flowers which are woodland incharacter or strong growing flowers are best: foxgloves, colum-bines, echinops—the showy oran
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