The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-30
WINDOW GARDENS THE RICH
sPRING FLOWERS ADD TO TIE
BEAUTY or CITY HOUSES.
Originality shown IN the Arrangement Of
the BlOOms-The Display This season
Held Hack BY the Laie SpTinE-TTy.
ing the London Back Yard Plan.

He'd HACK Ol INC LAAN RlNhA W.
Ing the London Back Yard Plan.
The late spring has kept the floral dec
oratinns Of city houses from blosso ming
with the brilllanoy they showed a year ago
st this time, but there has been the same
amount Of planting and preparation, and
few mild days will have their effect In
ryivine the beauties Of last summer. Five
wars ago there were not many houses in
New York which we're decorated with win
dow boxes or other horal ornament when
summer came. Now the number of the
houses that have been 30 beautihed is count
hss
As usual, the home OF Henry Poor at
Le1in gton avenue and Gramercy Park
ia the most ehborately decorated house
In town. The flowers here are especially
effective, since there is originality in the
election OF the oolors.
Blue and white hyacinths bloom In the
large vases in the yard, and on the small
balcony there are more OF these flowers.
Mixed with them on the balcony are row
Of white pansies.
Ms. John Cowdin at 10 Gramercy Park
also has original eoorations in her win
dovs. Pale pink hyacinths and coral
Eeraniums wave In the window boxes, inter-
spsrsed with jonquils.
Al the old stuyvesant Fish house, oc-
cupied now by Robert Collier, the strip Of
green grass Is all but filed by long beds o.
pink hyacinths and purple pansles. Pansies
end ivy are the Moral addition TO the Stan
ford White house.
The Vanderbilt flowers are always ge-
raniums. Indeed, these flowers are always
popular, especially when mixed with candy
tuit or ivy. The florists emed TO think
for several SEASONS that no other COM
binstion was possible.
There is more ina gnation put into tie
grouping Of 40 we n no ", and il is N 90 gnize
that there may be some thing besides these
few varieties. One house on upper Fifth
avenue has beautiful window boxes Of
heBotrope and coral geraniums. Another
has on three different floors tulips in diff
ferent shades Of red.
solid blocks Of jonquils and pale blue
hyacinths are the color scheme Of new
house in East Seventy-third street built Of
pink brick.
Janes Hazen Hyde has filled the window
boxes Of his two houses In East Forty-hrst
they look as II they might he beautiful
after q little warm weather has given more
color. and longer petals 10 them.
Mrs. Victor Sorchon's house In Madison
0vNnVa b again decorated with white hya-
einthh and yellow tulips, An attractive
featuie OF their decorative qua lii Is is the
prpmptneas with which the flowers are
changed a. soon as they lose their fresh
nosf
The james Speysr house, not far away,
had row Of coral geraniums about the two
sveTgroena IN vases in front Of the doors
and larger punches OF the geraniums with
white flowers inside the doorway.
Moses Taylor Pyne has adorned his house
at the corner Of Thirty-ninth street and
Madison avenue with piebald hyacinths,
which include every cUlor ia the rainbow.
Mrs. Thomas Hastings's house In East
Forty-hrst street has pansies and ivy-a
combination popular this spring.
Pansies and white hyAcinths are a com
bination that at least six jewellers on upper
Fifth avenue selected, although there is
very little bTilliancy In the colors Nothing
il more effective, though. than the gera-
NUNS In the reddest hues In spite Of the
Nor. They are the hardest Of all the
combinations and do not, like the hya-
cinths and tulips, have TO be replaced after
short time
long enough to let nAsturtiums grow,
said a florist who has decorated many
window boxes this spring. "They would see
then what an ideal flower for window boxes
the nasturtium Is 20 hardy and grows
% well that IL would form beautiful decora-
ton for the h ouses II would pour its
blooms out Of the boxes for the vines Of
the tell nAstuTtium would hang down several
feet b Glow the boxes. But II would be
well into June before they reached this
stage Of abundant blooming and by that
time New Workers are away and don't
care how the eTteriors Of thfr New York
town houses look.
But the nasturtiums they will hnd ideal
In color and e, IN more durable than the
gerapiums'
In spite Of the Z nal opinion, the garde ms
with the south.sn eXposurs do not prosper
best. They get too much sun. Geraniums
shoot up like weeds
If . window box does face south and get
the sun all day florist said 1T should be
protected when the sun u hottest by NIB VS.
paper or an awning. The genniums grow
beet in the houses That face north, and only
the pansies and small daisies that take lots
Of warmth are best when they get the full
sun
This florist said that a number Of New
lorkers had this year made the eIpe Hment
Of putting flowers into their back yards,
intending 70 try London plan Of living.
here the back yard Is made a retreat dur
ING the spring and early summer TO which
all the glests adjourn for tea after dinner
inside.
This plan has been tried in several cases
here 10y persone who ran out balcony from
NE back Pc rlor when there Was no extension
and allowed Il TO cover half OF the back
yard. over one Of these balconies was put
red awning and the view OF the yard Wne
cut on by high standards Of ivy that stood
on the railing about this platform. Hydran.
geas stood around ir pots and In every spot
Avaihbh flowers or greens were put.
These peuHons were 20 stay In town until
NE hrst Of July and expected the balcony
10 he q great comfort TO them. IL was
very attractive, but Il lacked the ooopeD'
uon Of their neighbop 10 make Il 90 m
plate suoooes.
In New York hack yards are still back
Yards, and " will take a change In the point
on view Of ell the community 70 make tho
London plan a Success