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FLOWER BORDERS. 3829 
FLOWER BORDERS. 
PROF. BAILEY, in Cornell Bulletin, No. 90. 
I wish, instead of saying flower-bed, we might say flower border. 
Any good place should have its center open; the sides may be 
more or less confined by planting of shrubs and trees and many 
kinds of plants. This border-planting sets bounds to the place, 
makes it one’s own; itis homelike. The person lives inside his place, 
not on it. He is not cramped up and jostled by things scattered all 
over the place, with no purpose or meaning. Along the borders, 
against groups, often by the corners of the residence or in front of 
porches,—these are places for flowers. When planting, do not aim 
at designs or effects; just have lots of flowers, a variety of them 
growing luxuriantly, as if they could not help it. 
I have asked a professional artist, Mr. Matthews, to draw me the 
kind of a flower bed he likes. Itis a border,—a trip of land two or three 
feet wide along a fence. This is the place where pigweeds usually 
grow. Here he has placed marigolds, gladioli, goldenrods, wild 
asters, China asters and—best of all—hollyhocks. Any one would 
like that flower garden. It has some of that local and indefinable 
