THE AMATEUR GARDEN 



consists of two curves. (It takes two curves, 

 let us say once more, to make even half of the 

 gentlest wave that can be made, if you take 

 it from the middle of the crest to the middle 

 of the trough, and in our American garden- 

 ing thousands of lawns, especially small front 

 lawns, are spoiled in their first lay-out by being 

 sloped in a single curve instead of in two curves 

 bending opposite ways.) Along a side of this 

 greensward farthest from the boundary to 

 which the house is so closely set are the drive 

 and walk, in one, and on the farther side of these, 

 next the sun, is the main flower-garden, half 

 surrounding another and smaller piece of lawn. 

 The dwelling stands endwise to the street and 

 broadside to this expanse of bloom. Against 

 its front foundations lies a bed of flowering 

 shrubs which at the corner farthest from the 

 drive swings away along that side's boundary 

 line and borders it with shrubbery down to 

 the street, the main feature of the group being a 

 luxuriant flowering quince as large as ten ordi- 

 nary ones and in every springtime a red splendor. 

 But the focus of the gardening scheme is at 

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