On the other hand, if the
approach is a returning one from the rear of the entire campus,--where
stands the institution's only other building, a large tall-towered
gymnasium, also of red brick,--these superlative effects show out across
an open grassy distance of from two hundred to three hundred feet.
Wherefore--and here at last we venture to bring names of things and
their places together--at the fronts of the northernmost and
southernmost of these three "Halls" we set favorite varieties of
white-flowering spireas (_Thunbergia, sorbifolia_, _arguta_, _Van
Houttei_), the pearl-bush (_exochorda_), pink diervillas, and
flowering-almonds. After these, on the southern side of the southernmost
building, for example, followed lilacs, white and purple, against the
masonry,--the white against the red brick, the lilac tint well away from
it,--with tamarisk and kerria outside, abreast of them, and then pink
and red spireas (_Bumaldi_ and its dwarf variety, _Anthony Waterer_). On
the other side of the same house we set deutzias (_scabra_ against the
brick-work and _Lemoynei_ and _gracilis_ outside). In a wing corner,
where melting snows crash down from a roof-valley, we placed the
purple-flowered _Lespedeza penduliflorum_, which each year dies to the
ground before the snow-slides come, yet each September blooms from three
to four feet high in drooping profusion.
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