Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-13
GARDEN EA-NOOKS
COSY CORNERS FOR ALL KINDS OF
PLEASANT USES.
Need Not BE Expensive Luxuries. but
Can He Made Very
Pretty.

Written for The Evening Star.
That we have only touched the outer edge
of the garden craze is what the florists and
plant importers and landscape architects
have agreed; and the fad and demand this
spring is for an acre or two that will de-
velop with the greatest rapidity and is
habitable as a garden can be. The popular
requirement Is for the massing of bright,
vivid colors in the Towering plants, for
japanese corners. colonial alleys eigh-
teenth century grottoes and rookeries. sun
dials, lead figures and over and above
everything else an abundance of arbors.
The taste for arbors was first nourished
on the Italian pergolas that are almost an
inevitable feature of every modern country
estate. But the pergola, beautiful as II is.
is not all satisfying and the garden OF the
very near future Will be well supplied
with coy corners, Irritation retreats tea
hooks, etc, as a well-designed country
house. The foundation for most OF these
arbors is no longer the earwig inviting
rustic pagoda, or a chilly miniature marble
temple but frame of green-painted wire
or lead piping to be covered eventually with
the rapid-growing honeysucke, clematis or
rambling roses.
Ropes of Roses.
Such a garden develops with a rapidity
that satisfies even the impatient American
mind, and among its manifold charms is to
be considered the inducement that il is not
very expensive luxury, that it is pictur-
esque and easily laid out; that a lloSv ar ard
exercise loving woman alone can fake care
of IL, and that it adopts itself to every spe-
cleS OF environment. On some of The spa-
cious country estates of the millio1alres a
special little arbor garden is laid out in a
corner to itself in order that its pcculiari-
ties may not jar upon the horticultural de-
sign followed in the disposition of The rest
or the howery area; and when this plan is
followed the arbor garden is divided from
no
rope of crimson or white rambler that
forms dividing line, but not barrier.
For the rope of roses iron stakes six
to ten feet long, are fastened In the ground
from ten to fifteen teet apart and a slack
green painted wire is strung through holes
at the top of every stake. Eventually a
lusty crimson rambler climbs up the stakes
goes wreathing round the wire and de-
scrlbes in time fairy ring of greenry and
color about the gay colony of domed and
striped arbors.
happily utilized about that area of a gar
den devoted exclusively to rose culturst
and in a rose tract there is sure these DAYS
to be domed tea Grhor of green wire.
shaped like temple dedicated to the
muses. and large enough to give the climb
ing plants chance to display their glories
oe blossom to the greatest advantage.
Where Lovers Linger.
A Irritation retreat has now become q
feature of every garden that is nobly
planned and is a circular frame of trellis
wire, ten feet high, with three exits, and
the gardener usually allows honeysuckle,
matrimony vine and a white running rose
called the bride to vie in their efforts 10
screen the occupants Of the green and fra
grant enclosures from plying eyes. A fir
tatlon retreat is always provided with A.
garden seat shaped like the drawing room
tete-a-tete chair, and never a seat Is there
provided for the tiresome. superfuous third
person.
In ba Of
for big and little gardens the most pic
turesquely pretty treliis gateways with
double arches or double gables are made
Some of these, made in double gothic ga.
Dies, have the extreme tops of the gables
so arranged that they may be utilized by
quick-witted robins, thrushes, black birds.
etc, as fine building sites. BY dint of
excluding cots and marauding small boys
most of the properly laid out and well con.
Quoted gardens are made to barber large
colonies of wild songsters, and the owners,
who really love the birds and seek every
means to encourage them, buy tiny nest
frames and nest shelters and thoughtfully
hang them about among the vines and
bushes. AT the garden furnishing shops
they sell also the most charming arbor
cages for canaries and bullfinches and an
amazing array OF ivory-handled scissors
and baskets for gathering roses.
Rose Barrows.
To the woman who has a garden and
loves it, 1t is safe TO offer at the shrine
one of the rose barrows made of white
rushes. 1t is shaped exactly like farm
wheelbarrow, with the difference that it
is, of course, far smaller and is as light as
babys parambulator. Its body is woven
of cream-colored green and red willow, or
rushes; punches of cream, red and green
ribbons are tied on its long curved handles,
and 1t Will hold roses enough to decorate
for ball.
Gimme penny" whined beggar. DID
not that other person give you one?" asked
the poet. 'YeSSir-" 'Well. 1 am no MIA.