ANOTHER HARDY GARDEN BOOK 



enough to continually wash the top soil to 

 the foot of the slope, which was partly cor- 

 rected by terracing; the soil was hard and 

 clayey and had never made a very successful 

 vegetable garden. The first thing was to 

 plan the best arrangement of the space. 



Some time before, a friend had given me a 

 plan of her garden, which was old when the 

 Revolutionary war was ended. Washington 

 and his officers had walked there, and for the 

 hundred and thirty years that had passed 

 since those days the place with its beautiful 

 garden had remained in the same family, 

 loved and cared for in every generation. 



This old garden has the formal-shaped, 

 Box-edged beds seen in all Colonial gardens. 

 The Box, tall and thick, entirely fills the 

 beds in some places, and the bushes of old- 

 fashioned Roses, Paeonies, Madonna Lilies, 

 and many of the other old-time flowers have 

 grown on, increasing in size and beauty, 

 while generations who have tended them have 

 followed each other to their last long sleep. 

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