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is most home building, the native growth is more 

 appreciated. Nothing in nature is more charm- 

 ing than woods, delightful for children to visit and 

 interesting even to older people. One should have 

 this charm in intimate relationship with one's home, 

 having woods when possible as a boundary of the 

 front yard, or a background for the flower-garden. 

 A copse or spur from the edge of woods might even 

 extend toward the house to separate the front yard 

 from the garden, and lengthwise through the center 

 of this copse a path might lead to the wood bound- 

 ary and w r ith an opening to the flower-garden. 



VEGETABLE-GARDENS 



In city and suburban homes, vegetable-gardens 

 can very properly be introduced for two purposes : 

 one, to give pleasure to owners who might take de- 

 light in seeing lettuce, strawberries, peas, parsley, 

 onions, beets, carrots, and other vegetables growing, 

 just as they would in looking at a flower-garden ; 

 the other, the pleasure of having fresh vegetables 

 which are far better than those which have lain in a 

 grocery one or two days. Vegetables which are 

 purchased are usually far cheaper than those which 

 are raised, but they are not as good unless they can 



