The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-07-31
Skilled Landscape Gardening About
0. c. ". Gives Promise Of Con-
verting Grounds into Far
Famed Beauty Spot
50 VARIETIES OF
PLANTS ARE CROWN
Beds Of Various Sizes Figure in
Scheme; Society Plots Present
Striking Feature; Bermuea
and Trees Thriving

Did you know that the campus 0
the Oklahoma College for Women va
coming to be one Of the beauty spot
OF Oklahoma? In fact, that 1t has ,
start in trees. shrubs and flowers tha
in short time will have made III
grounds among the most beautiful o
any state school? II you don't, yot
should know IT,
A visit to the place now being
groomed up for the opening Of school
in September. would not even be
amiss. You would probably see some
beautiful Towering shrubs you never
knew would grow here before. You
would probably even see some that
you never knew grew anywhere. for
there are some fifty varieties of flow.
ering plants In President Austin's
flower gardens now, $500 plants. and
most of them are in full bloom.
Flower gardening at the Oklahoma
College for Women is carried on on
extensive scale. but at the same time
ON the intensive plan More than three
thousand Towering plants. most OF
them parennials, make up the halt
dozen gardens. There is one Flower
bed that is 75O feet long, but there are
others scarcely ten by ten. In fact,
there are six little beds, complete in
themselves, with half dozen varie-
ties of flowers. that are no more thar
fifteen inches by five feet. They are
contained in the porch boxes that have
been placed at the entrance to Nellie
Sparks hall. Half a dozen more OF
them would transform the side of the
entrance to a solid little line of ter
raced garden.
Probably the feature that will be of
most interest TO the returning girls
when they again take their places In
Nellie Sparks hall will be the Utopia
and Leaman societies beds. utopia's
plot is just south Of the east main en-
trance to administration hall. Lea
man has the corresponding plot on the
north.
Each Is featured by the name Of the
society, in letters made Of coIeus
piaIts, and BY the color scheme car
ried out in each bed. The official
colors OF Leaman are red and white.
Only flowers that will advance this
scheme are used, cannas. geraniums.
flox, portulaca and half dozen other
varieties, all arranged in the most ar
tistic manner, are banked with car
dinal climber and moon vines that
make solid back ground of green and
red covering the stone entrance to
the building.
Then to add to the beauty of the
bed. a miniature lily pond has been
placed in one corner where Japanese
fantails may be found. if one will ex-
anime closely. swimming around un-
der the lily leaves.
Utopia got later start on their
plot, but they have beginning that
carries out their color scheme almost
as well as does the north bed for Lea
man.
Violets form border within which
marigolds. golden Burbank cannas.
zenias and trailing vines of half a
dozen different kinds. each with flow
ers of blue. surround the letters
Utopia growing in colius plants
that have yellow leaves Four o'clocks,
roses and petunias complete the
scheme
A continuous flower bed connects
administration hall with the dorrni-
tory. and there are more varieties in
ii than any one besides A. s. Gray,
knows anything about Mr. Gray
put the shrubs In, and he cannot even
remember all the varieties without
going over the ground each time he
wants to tell them.
Among the most show now are the
Shasta daisies with their thousands
of flowers. each with its yellow center
and delicate. even petals. Then there
are a hundred RailsrdIas, each red and