Evening star., 1928-05-18

garden picture, conceiving the problem
solely from that standpoint.
What" he asks himself will give
this gardener the best results? What
arrangement will give the most for the
money as 1t were?
Here We have two borders and two
trees. TIL, trees. concerning whose size
/ know nothing definitely, certainly
seem close together. for such small
yard.
The back porch ought to give the
gardener place to sit In the shade, so
the chief utilitarian purpose of the
tree by the house Is gone. This leaves
only ornamentation for its excuse for
being so close to the house. o.
In my estimation, tree ought not
to be so close TO house, anyway.
Nov let me consider the other tree
AS planted In the corner. at the rear
OF the lot 1t fully meets the demands
of the best landscape architecture, ac
cording to all that l have read along
that. line.
ut not only gives a pleasing note OF
interest, as viewed from the porch, but
1t builds up the third dimension of the
garden, height, commonly forgotten in
planning the garden.
Most gardeners, by the very nature
OF things, take into consideration the
depth and width of their gardens, but
forget that nothing gives in certain
artistic look so much as something tall.
either tree, shrub, or teahouSe, in the
background.
Even a garage at the rear of lot
helps in this respect.
"A third good quality OF the back
ground tree is that 1t gives shade in
which one may sit and look at the other
parts of the garden"
*%
Now he comes to the personal equa.
ton.
Being one who believes in the old
world-famous, age-famouS Golden
Mean" of which Epicurus spoke when
he said that too much of anything
is bad, he feels that compromise is
eXpedient
Instead of banishing both trees. or
keeping both trees. why not take out
one tree, leaving the other? Already
the reader knows which tree Is to re-
main.
This. then, was the solution Of
tered our correspondent in a personal
letter. The tree by the house should
CO. but the one by the alley retained.
II flowers would not succeed beneath
the maple, then some shrub that does
we'll in the shade might be tried. For
this purpose the common snowberry
tSymphoricarpos racemosuS) was sug-
gested. This is described by Prof. Frank
A. Waugh as an excellent shrub in
foundation paintings and small group
ings generally"
The writer here has six of them on
the north side OF his house in soggy
ground. where they get only couple
of hours sun a day. yet they are thriv-
ing nicely. To quote Prof. Waugh again.
The common snowberry is the most re-
fined of the tribe and best suited for
the tidy manners Of the home yard"
Since all answers must have reser-
vation, 1t must be confessed. We quail
fled our verdict by saying that II the
two trees were real trees, 1t might be
better to let them remain.
After all. even an outsider must fee!
some reluctance at doing away with
real tree. one that has made a good
growth. and Is both high and broad
enough to be regarded as friend.
Yet. other things being equal. We be-
lieve our compromise program the best
one, rs compromises usually are You
give up something. to keep something,
and IN the end usually find out that
you are the gamer. Compromise must
play large part In the making of
garden-and a home.