Show 11 1 ORNAMENTAL BACK YARDS 1 1 9 o The The simplest design for ornamental ornamental I tal yard back-yard planting on a small place consists of ot a a. belt of shrubbery shrubbery shrub shrub- b bery ry about the boundaries with perennials per ter- I bulbs and annuals in treat front of them This is the first step andOne andone and andone one that ma may be easily accomplished in one season if it the task of laying out a complete garden seems too heavy For the first season the flowers should consist of annuals to a great extent with the perennials growing from seed to be set In ir place late in the season to come Into bloom next year Annuals may nay be set among the newer planted shrubs the first year for if properly spaced to give a chance to develop prop crop erl erly there will be spaces between the bushes which will look very wide and bare for a a. season or two These may be filled with shallow- shallow rooting annuals which will in no noway noway noway way interfere with the deeper- deeper rooting shrubbery It If Is an easy matter to select annuals annuals an an- of ot the color or col colors rs you prefer preter pre pre- fer ter for tor this planting There is also a great variety in height to arrange a pleasing floral pattern Tall growing annuals to set toward the back of the border but not close enough to smother the young bushes are annual sunflowers cosmos cosmos cosmos cos cos- mos spider plant ot ot- cleome the flowering tobaccos the tall African marigolds colossal zinnias with possibly a plant or two of castor beans bens to tower above the shrubbery and nd give accent points to the planting Toward the front of the borde border lower growing annuals such as as asters asters asters as- as stocks salvi salvias as petunias dwarf dwart marigolds dwarf dwart zinnias pinks and scores of others may be sown A garden of the tho various annual poppies alone will make a gorgeous display These annuals are best planted in colonies of ot a single color for pleasIng pleasIng pleasing pleas pleas- ing effects The gardener may ex exercise exercise exercise ex- ex his Ingenuity and artistic eye In arranging his his' color plans clans With tho outer border completed It will willbe willbe be a much easier matter to develop a scheme of r beds within the enclosure ure surrounded by the the- shrubs |