There are many places where planters may be effectively placed beside the front or back doors, beneath a picture window so that plantings are lifted up making a foreground to the picture seen through the window; beside or incorporated into the terrace, flanking steps, on the upper side of a retaining wall or on the lower side with the wall as a backdrop for the plants-we could go on detailing the possibilities endlessly, for more come to our notice every month.

The possibilities for plantings to be used in the planters is very wide, too. Roses, perennials, bulbs, annuals, small blossoming slirubs, all-green shrubs, evergreens, which may be clipped into geometric shapes if that is your hobby, even trees may be placed in a planter and used with low- growing plants around them. For those who are away during the summer we recommend planters with spring bulbs planted under periwinkle, which will give them first a burst of spring blossom and then a neat and orderly green carpet through the summer Pots of chrysanthemums can be used, either set into the planter in the soil or meiely placed on top of it among the periwinkle plants This will give two bursts of bloom a year

Others who have small planters keep them gay all summer long bv putting a succession of planted pots in them, starting with bulbs forced in pots, and then following with a succession of annuals. Every time a pot of flowers begins to fade, a replacement is brought in from the garden where a battery of pots is started and kept going for just this purpose. In the autumn potted chrysanthemums are brought in as replacements. The trick here is to use pots of the same size throughout, packing peatmoss or vermiculite around them to help to keep them moist and cool when they are watered each day, and putting a replacement pot in the hole left by the one removed. It can be quite a fascinating game, not to mention the interest it will add to your garden. This same idea can be adapted to a planter placed under a picture window so that all season long you will see flowers from the house as you look out.