The herald., 1897-07-15

ornamentation of Home Grounds

Oruamentat1ou OF Home GROUNDS
One of the most interesting and i'm
portant papers read at the late meeting
OF the Southern California Pathological
society held at Azusa was from the able
treasurer of the Redlands Horticultural
club. Mrs. Mary Lynde Craig of Red
lands. 1t is to be remarked that very
many OF the best papers read a our in
stitutes are from the ladies. Mrs. Craig's
topic was "Ornamentation of Home
Grounds" No wonder she is impressed
with the Importance of this subject. Red
lands gives an object lesson which we
wish might be copied by every other
town of California, which must be daily
qualification to Mrs. Craig. What piece
OF good fortune it would be if every
town in Southern California would lis
ten to the advice of Mrs. Craig and act
in the premises. How true are the fol-
lowing words: Here in Southern Cali
fornia our possibilities are great, both
in lines useful and lines ornamental. In
deed, all things ornamental are useful;
useful in training the eye, useful in mel
lowing the heart, useful in teaching
many to look for beauty, and, mayhap,
to find it where. before, they had found
nothing.
I'm the laying out Of grounds I would
suggest that you first indicate the sweep
OF your carriage drive and of walks a
Few, remembering that the line of beauty
is straight line never-a curve ALWAYS
For the base and center of your planting
scheme lovely lawn, though not a
prime necessity, is coign of vantage. q
resting place for eye and heart that is
highly desirable.
f'ut sage palm so called-cycas
revomta-in the center, and watch the
SLOW development of this wonderful
plant from Japan. 1 seem to hear some
one say: This is not palm at ALL Ac
cording to botanical classification. no
1t is a cycas, but as cycas is a Greek
word meaning palm, we are not far
astray IN giving it the royal name of
PAIN Mrs. Craig could give another
reason Tor planting the cycas. 1t is a
representative of an old-time vegeta
lion and shows that the world was not
without beauty in the older geologic
Gays. The cycas is really more rela ted
70 the comfers, which, as is well known
includes the pine, etc.
Inc following from Mrs. Craig's adj
oress is also of value: by sowing sweet
peas-fowering ones-every two weeks
from January to December and only
sowing the best seeds, you will have .
succession OF sweetness from years end
to years end. An ounce Of seeds will SOW
double row twenty-five feet in length.
Ii these rows be planted a foot apart and
a trellis built between them. Won will
indeed have flower fence that with
ample grace will shelter you from the
sometimes too ardent sum-"
The fOllOWino advioa is ,ot .,-
needed, but might always be considered.
For the best effects of form and color
you should mass each style of plant. nut
all Cosmos in one place, all peas in one
place. all carnations in one place. Then
the colors and habits of growth will
though often contrasting, present a gen
eral appearance of harmony that will
De very charming. In the following par
agraph: "Wisteria chinensis will climb
a porch or wall 1--WE have no fences in
this southlanD and with wonderful
grace will hang therefrom pendulous
branches of as pretty pale blue flowers
as one would wish to See" Mrs Craig
might have added: And you will also
nave bee plant of real excellence The
Following may be new to some who are
even experts in Horticulture: 1.-The Gold of
Ophlr and the Beauty of GlazenWood
are sometimes spoken of as the same
rose. They are entirely distinct. The
colors and their blending are similar, but
the Beauty of Glazenwood has more
leathery petals and a smoother, more
entire border Mrs. Craig does not be-
lieve that because a thing is useful il
should be neglected for ornamental pur-
poses. Not far from the house-if in
an orange belt-I would have a nave
orange or early fruit and valencia
orange for late. Both these will give
luscious fruit and beauty all the yea,
round" think Mrs. Craig might safely
recommend the beautiful olive. Many
object to it because it has money. value
but think it should be planted in orna-
mental ground because of it's rare
beauty. I am glad that Mrs. Craig
recommends SO highly the date palm
which, with it's fountain of green, and
rare grace, is incomparably beautiful
She says: 'In many parts of California
and especially south of the Tehachepi
the royal family of palms grow in, great
luxury. Phoenix canariensis makes a
beautiful street tree, but if used at all
the whole street, from beginning to end
should be lined with ton both sides.
A street SO lined and the trees well
cared for commends itself to the admira-
ton of every southrcn.'' How much
more beautiful these palms are than the
more common fan-palm and they will
well repay the extra first cost. They also
grow with such rapidity that in two or
three years after setting them out they
are genuinely beautiful.
ANY man might be proud to be referred
to as Mrs. Craig refers to two of Red
lands citizens: I'm Mr.. Meserves gar
den, in Redlands, jaccaranda tree pre-
sents mass of bright blue flowers in
spring time. In front of Mr.. Judson's
grounds, in the same city, some Grape
myrtle trees deck themselves with mos
exquisite flowers of the prettiest pink
imaginable. Both the jaccaranda and
the crape-myrtle are distinct in theii
beauty and they flourish wonderfully ir
Redlands." I am glad to admit the same
is true at Claremont
The following reference to Mrs. Shep.
herd of Ventura may well incite every
woman in Southern California to like
effort: "Our own Mrs. Theodosa Shep-
herd of Ventura has shown what can be
done along commerciallines by a woman
who is an enthusiastic flower Lover, at thu
same time floral matchmaker. She
has by cross fertilization originated