. The beautiful flower garden, its treatment with special regard for the picturesque. Written and embellished with numerous illustrations by F. Schuyler Mathews. With notes on practical floriculture by Fewkes. Floriculture. 156 THE liEAUTIFUL GARDEN. to be found in an indiscriminate mixture of all varieties. Still, better color results may be obtained by planting the seed or arranging the blossoms together as I have suggested. There are a number of hardy vines for Yjj^gg l)ermanent situations which I must not pass without a few words of recommenda- tion. The honeysuckle needs no p
. The beautiful flower garden, its treatment with special regard for the picturesque. Written and embellished with numerous illustrations by F. Schuyler Mathews. With notes on practical floriculture by Fewkes. Floriculture. 156 THE liEAUTIFUL GARDEN. to be found in an indiscriminate mixture of all varieties. Still, better color results may be obtained by planting the seed or arranging the blossoms together as I have suggested. There are a number of hardy vines for Yjj^gg l)ermanent situations which I must not pass without a few words of recommenda- tion. The honeysuckle needs no praise, but I think it is not used as frequently in the garden, over trellis and arbor, as it ought to be. Perhaps we have too few summer houses on our grounds to enable us to use vines as freely as we would wish; the character of a typical American garden shows itself in winter—barren. Not only flowers are gone, but nothing stands to break the forlorn flat wastes. There ought to be something constructed for the accommodation of the cinnamon vine, 's pipe, latherus (perennial pea), white jessamine, trumpet creeper, moonflower, Chinese matrimony vine, and passion flower. The last mentioned con- ^ ventional character is too beautiful and interest- "n^^/ if ing not to hold a strong place in at least the more y \ elaborate garden which has a greenhouse to de- "•""E pend upon in winter. The Dutchman's pipe and Flower. the trumpet creeper are two broad and effective characters which ought to hold a broad back- ground position. It is almost invariably the case that heavy vines cover house walls and piazza Vines too Heavy. .... , , . posts in inordinate and tasteless profusion. I do not think one can claim anything artistic in the ap- pearance of house or piazza overwhelmed with vegetation. On the contrary, with few exceptions there is a wholesale sacrifice of good taste, because it is one of the cardinal prin- ciples of art that the construction of a th
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