Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1911-06-15

England and elsewhere. whereas THIS form OF
horticultural sculpture is lacking the Virginia
gardens are embellished by many an artistic
touch. For instance. the grassy or hower-banked
terraces which can be rendered so effective have
been introduced whenever the character of the
site seemed to render 1t advisable, and foun-
tans, stone garden seats, etc. to be found
just In the gardens laid out in more precise
fashion The gardens of the Old Dominion also
disclose wide variety of pergolas. arbors and
summer houses. Some Of these of rustic
construction and almost all of them unpre-
tentious in character compared with the orna-
mental buildings to be found in twentieth cen
fury gardens where money has flowed like water.
but for quiet repose and the charm Of sylvan sol
tude and as trysting places for those who desire
to exchange condolences in a sympathetic though
secluded environment 1t Is doubtful If there is
in the entire country anything to compare with
these vinecovered hooks
Perhaps the ideal time to visit an old vir-
ginia garden is in the spring early summer
when the prim box hedges have tips on every
branch, giving them a coat OF soft green and
imparting the touch of feathers when the hand
is passed over the soft surface. Rose time is
bound to be a favorite season because roses we're
ever one OF the most cherished charges of the
od-time gardeners in this favored cline. and
here may find In all their glory a number
Of beautiful varieties, such as the Nelly Custis,
which will not be encountered elsewhere unless
they have been transplanted from Virginia soil
But in reality It is injustice to praise the rose
season above other intervals in the prolonged
blossom time The chief ambition Of the owner
Of a colonial garden IN the Old Dominion has
ever been to so select and arrange the flowers
that the garden win be a continual mass of
bloom from the advent of the magnolia the
SNOWFALL and the lilac in the early spring until
after the passing of the Virginia creepers the
iesgamines, the passion vines and the hardy
chrysanthsmums Of the waning season.
The amount Of care necessary to keep a vlr
ginia garden in proper condition would be likely
to surprise resident of a more northery state
not familiar from experience with the rapdity
with which things gov in this favored cline
Even the box hedges-perhaps two hundred
years old-must be trimmed back every year IL
they to be keLt less than shoulder high so
that they will not prevent visitors to the garden
from obtaining geheral views Of the labyrinth Of
greenery. The average colonial garden which
has been maintained in anything approaching its
old-ti4He glory has greenhouse attached in
which plants may be given a favorable start
early in the spring and later transplanted to the
flower beds. Many of the old gardens also have
in one conner of the plot a tiny ornamental
building Used as a seed house and tool house.
whereas IN not few OF these ancient floral do
mains the ume-honored sun dial has been made
the central object in the garden and the flower
beds have been arranged around it as a pivot.
Al many Of the estates IL Virginia. particu-
Inr1u fnoeo which were fho homes Of r,o, - -,