THE AMATEUR GARDEN 



Landscape Architects, of Boston (Brookline), a 

 remarkably handsome garden of flowers and 

 shrubbery designed as a model for the guidance 

 of those in the competition who seek to combine 

 artistic beauty with inexpensiveness. From time 

 to time we have given at these headquarters 

 winter courses of lectures on practical flower- 

 gardening. 



As a result we have improved, and are still 

 improving, the aspect of entire streets and are 

 interesting the whole city. 



But to return to our discussion. Here is a 

 short story of two ladies. They are not in our 

 competition, though among its most ardent well- 

 wishers. A friend had given one of them a bit of 

 green, woody growth some two feet high and half 

 an inch thick. She had a wee square bit of 

 front grass-plot something larger than a table- 

 cloth, but certainly not large enough for a game 

 of marbles. In the centre of this bit of grass she 

 planted her friend's gift. Then came our other 

 lady, making a call, and with her best smile of 

 humorous commendation, saying: 



"My dear, you have violated the first rule of 



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