Rules given by the spe: Study your place, pr possible features, low, high, trees, seclusion, and distance or and have simplicity. As the jove moves in straight lines subconsciously, she said, a feeling of amplitude and interest in the out look can only be attained through indefiniteness of boundary line and concealment of corners irregularly shaped open lawn; by softness and blending of colour in the foliage moss that frames it and by subtle variations in lawns unit~ ing with the studied outlines of bounding shrubbery, so that one sugments the other.. Green was described as the colour lending tance; yellow shortens it. Plantig or bedding in straight rows is likely to create distance.
For a sky-line, Miss Claiborne listed the following trees; poplars, willows, cotton wood, locust, maple, iver maple; for screening and filling in spaces, thorns dogwood, podocorpa, pine, spruce, juniper, ea, hydrangea:
Jas ivy, English and Japanese evergreen; for shady places, bamboo, tea, olive, plum, Japanese barberry, crepe myrtle," orange, gardenia, privet, photinfa, magnolia, holly, azalea; for a low spot iris or lilies; to cover an unsightly spot, wisteria, Regarding the simplicity of a garden a warning was given not to metaphors, not to use something merely because it was pretty or in our neighbours' gardens, when it did not suit our own particular garden.
Walks and driveways should be kept six feet from the building and should be brought into the plan equally with the planting, the speaker pointed out.
In conclusion Miss Clairborne listed the implements needed for consistent working in a garden, some facts about soil and the working of sell, diseases often encountered among plants and a general summing up of a number of special garden features, like playgrounds The next meting of the Gardening Department is set for October 21, at which time another instructive address will be given on "The Vegetable Garden."
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