CHAPTER II 



A COMMON SENSE GARDEN 



HE most ap- 



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propriate garden 

 for a small house, 

 or for a moderately 

 large house on small 

 grounds, no matter in 

 what style of architec- 

 ture it may be built, is one that can 

 best be described as a cross between 

 the formal garden of the South and 

 the old New England yard, as it con- 

 tains features of both judiciously 

 blended. The formality consists of 

 the hedge or fence enclosing it, the 

 quite formal approach and the gen- 

 eral plan of the paths; and to this 

 is added in the way of planting 

 the half-wild, unkempt freedom of 

 the New England cottage-garden; 

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