FLOWERS IN LAWNS 



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Fig. 132). I am directing my remarks to those 

 humble home-made flower-beds which are so 

 common in lawns of country and city homes 

 alike. These beds are cut from the good fresh 



133. A heavy border which shuts out a bleak field. In 

 front of this border is an ideal place for flowers. 



turf, often in the most fantastic designs, and are 

 filled with such plants as the women of the 

 place may be able to carry over in cellars or in 

 the window. The plants themselves may look 

 very well in pots, but when they are turned out 

 of doors they have a sorry time for a month 

 adapting themselves to the sun and winds, and 

 it is generally well on towards midsummer before 

 they begin to cover the earth. During all these 

 weeks they have demanded more time and labor 

 than would have been needed to care for a plan- 

 tation of much greater size, and which would 



