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flowers ; they cannot rival the variety ; but they can 

 stamp lines of grace, and harmony of arrangement 

 upon the merest door-yard of vegetables and pot 

 herbs. 



Here let me outline, in brief, what a farmer s 

 garden may be made, without other than home-labor. 

 A broad walk shall run down the middle of either a 

 square enclosure, or long parallelogram. A box 

 edging upon either side is of little cost, and contrib 

 utes eminently to neatness ; it will hold good for 

 eight years, without too great encroachment, and at 

 that time, will sell to the nurserymen for more than 

 enough to pay the cost of resetting. On either side 

 of this walk, in a border of six feet wide, the farmer 

 may plant his dwarf-fruit, with grapes at intervals 

 to climb upon a home-made cedar trellis, that shall 

 overarch and embower the walk. If he love an 

 evening pipe in his garden, he may plant some simple 

 seat under one or more of these leafy arbors. 



At least one half the garden, as I before sug 

 gested, he may easily arrange, to till, spring and 

 autumn, with the plough ; and whatever he places 

 there in the way of tree and shrub, must be in lines 

 parallel with the walk. On the other half, he will be 

 subjected to no such limitations ; there, he will 

 establish his perennials his asparagus, his thyme, 

 his sage, and parsley ; his rhubarb, his gooseberries, 

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