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SEA LAVENDER AND DELPHINIUM IN A NANTUCKET GARDEN

 THE WELL CONSIDERED GARDEN
 
BY
MRS. FRANCIS KING
 
ILLUSTRATED
 
WITH PREFACE BY
GERTRUDE JEKYLL
 
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
NEW YORK
1917

 
TO
THE DEAR MEMORY
OF
A RARE GARDENER
A. R. K. 
 

NOTE

To the publishers and editors of The Garden Magazine my thanks are due for kind permission to reprint here those portions of this book which originally appeared in the columns of that periodical. To the Massachusetts Horticultural Society and to The Garden Club of America I am indebted for the use of passages written for those organizations. And to the several amateur gardeners, known and unknown to me, whose writing or whose photographs grace these pages, I offer here most hearty appreciation of their friendly aid.

LOUISA YEOMANS KING.

ORCHARD HOUSE
Alma,.Michigan.

  

PREFACE

THE wide-spread interest in gardening that is steadily growing throughout the land will have prepared a large public for the reception of such stimulating encouragement as will be found in the following pages. One thinks of a great and fertile field ready ploughed and sown, and only waiting for genial warmth and moisture to make it burst forth into life and eventual abundance. The book will come as these vivifying influences. The author's practical knowledge, keen insight, and splendid enthusiasm, her years of labor on her own land and her constant example and encouragement of others — combine to make her one of those most fitted to direct energy, to suggest and instruct — to communicate her own thought and practise to willing learners.

Many are those who love their gardens, many who know their plants, many who understand their best ways of culture. All these qualities or accomplishments are necessary, but besides and above them all is the will or determination to do the best possible — "to garden finely" — as Bacon puts it. Such a desire is often felt, but from lack of experience it cannot be brought into effect. What is needed for the doing of the best gardening is something of an artist's training, or at any rate the possession of such a degree of aptitude — the God-given artist's gift — as with due training may make an artist; for gardening, in its best expression, may well rank as one of the fine arts. But without the many years of labor needed for any hope of success in architecture, sculpture, or painting, there are certain simple rules, whose observance, carried out in horticulture, will make all the difference between a garden that is utterly commonplace and one that is full of beauty and absorbing interest.

Of these one of the chief is a careful consideration of color arrangement. Early in her gardening career this fact impressed itself upon the author's mind. A study of the book reveals the method and gives a large quantity of applied example. A few such lessons put in practise will assuredly lead on to independent effort; for the learner, diligently reading and carefully following the good guidance, will soon find the way open to a whole new field of beauty and delight.

GERTRUDE JEKYLL.

   

CONTENTS

 

ILLUSTRATIONS

Sea Lavender and Delphinium in a Nantucket Garden
Tulip Kaufmanniana with Scilla Sibirica
Tulips Reverend H. Ewbank and Clara Butt, below Blooming Lilac          
Sea-holly and Phlox Pantheon
Phlox Aurore Borkale, Sea-holly, and Chrysanthemum Maximum         
Muscari Heavenly Blue, Tulips Retroflexa, and Myosotis along Brick Walk        
Arabia and Tulip Cottage Maid     
Double Gypsophila and Shasta Daisy
Gypsophila and Lilies in the Garden
The Time of Lilies and Delphiniums
Borders of Pale Blue, Blue-Purple, and Pale Yellow
Tulip Cottage Maid with Arabia Alpina
Munstead Primrose and Tulip White Swan on Slope below
Poplar and Pine
Peonies and Canterbury Bells      
Discreet Use of Rambler Rose, Lady Gay
Heuchera Sanguinea Hybrids
Rambler Rose Lady Gay over Gate
Hybrid Columbines below Briar Rose Lady Penzance    
Narcissus Barri Flora Wilson
The Time of Gypsophila
Hardy Asters in September
Puschkinia below Shrubs
Tulip Kaufmanniana in Border
Crocus Mont Blanc           
Darwin Tulips at the Haarlem (Holland) Jubilee Show, 1910
Hyacinthus Lineatus, Var. Azureus
Tulip Kaufmanniana
Tulip Vitellina, Phlox Divaricata
Tulip Gesneriana Elegans Lutea Pallida above Phlox
Divaricata Laphami
Pink Canterbury Bells, Stachys Lanata
Bellis Perennis and Narcissus Poeticus    
Darwin Tulips with Iris Germanica
A Spring Flower Border in Pale Blue, Yellow, and Mauve
Gladiolus America below Buddleia
Delphinium La France, Campanula Persicifolia, Digitalis Ambigua, and Pyrethrum           
 Delphiniums the Alake and Statuaire Rude
Buddleia Variabilis Magnifica, White Zinnia below
The Trowel, the Label, and Various Baskets
Baptisia Australis
Garden at London Flower Show of 1912
Detail of another Garden at London Flower Show, 1912
Terrace Planting, Garden on Nantucket   
Phlox Time, Garden at Gates Mills, Ohio
At Swampscott, Massachusetts
Fernbrook, Lenox, Massachusetts
Fancy Field, Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania
Rustic Arbor and Pergola in Tacoma Garden — First Year
Thornewood, American Lake, Tacoma    
Glendessary, Santa Barbara, California   
Planting Plans for Color
Color Arrangement of Late Tulips
Suggestion for Spring Planting before Shrubbery Parterre of Spring Flowers (City)
Section of Simple Planting against Brick Wall