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THE PLAN OF THE PLACE 



Such a border half full of weeds is handsomer 

 than the average well kept geranium bed, because 

 the weeds enjoy growing and the geraniums do 

 not. I have such a border, three feet wide and 

 ninety feet long, beside a rear walk. I am putting 

 plants into it every month in the year when the 

 frost is out of the ground. Plants are dug in the 



135. A good place for flowers in a formal border. 



woods or fields, whenever I find one which I fancy, 

 even if in July. The tops are cut off, the roots 

 kept moist, and even though the soil is a most 

 unkindly one, most of these much -abused plants 

 grow. To be sure, there are some weeds in it; 

 but then, the weeds are a part of the collection! 

 A well grown bull-thistle in such a place is worth 



