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picture as seen from the street. Not that blossoms 

 are absent; some of the shrubs bloom and there is 

 an interspersing of perennials and bulbs. The 

 main note, however, is shrubbery which is given a 

 winter value by the employment of some evergreen 

 shrubs and others with berries or gaily-colored 

 twigs. 



Run a border down from the back door even 

 when that happens to be the kitchen entrance. 

 Make a path if none exists and extend the border to 

 a flower garden, consisting of more borders or a 

 parterre ; or to the kitchen garden, the barn or the 

 poultry yard. The walk thither will be the more 

 pleasant for the border, in each case. Or run a 

 border from the rear of the house down to the end 

 of the lawn; then straight through the plowed 

 ground to the farther edge of the plot, to divide 

 the fruit garden from the vegetable garden, or all 

 around a rectangle of vegetables excluding corn 

 and lima beans, unless the space is large. If there 

 is no plowed ground the rectangle may be a grass 

 plot for tennis or merely for drying clothes of a 

 Monday. 



These back yard borders are all along the lines 

 of least resistance straight propositions. None 

 of them offers any particular difficulty; in fact 

 there is no easier kind of flower gardening. They 

 may be long or short, wide or narrow, straight or 

 curved, double or single ; you consider yourself and 

 your convenience here, not the judgment of the 

 passerby. 



