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Identifier: livablehouseitsg01dean (find matches)
Title: The livable house, its garden
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Dean, Ruth. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York, Moffat, Yard and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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(99) The Livable House and to save all the others for a secret garden, or a cutting garden.It is hard to rule out ones favorites and consign them to a generalmixture, but it becomes necessary when they clash with otherfavorites, and when there is not unlimited space in the maingarden. In arranging flowers with respect lO form, the main thing to re-member is that a general uniformity in character and size of plantsis undesirable. Low things need to be broken occasionally bytaller plants, large leaves contrasted with small, and fine laceyfoliage solidified by coarser-leaved plants. The general rule that tall things should be kept to the back ofthe border with lower growing plants in front, ought not to beenforced to the point of giving the plants an appearance of tierarrangement. The hollyhocks and boltonia and foxgloves shouldrun forward here and there into the phlox and sweet William, inorder to break up their too even line, and the blue bells and for-get-me-nots would sufifer no harm

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