12 LANDSCAPE GARDEN SERIES 



usual garden. In vegetable gardens we have now set forth to 

 implant beauty, but in the nature of things it must needs be 

 beauty of the more formal sort. 



A simple formality is best. Intricate designs, though often 

 both desirable and attractive, call for many extra hours and are 

 possible only where leisure is ample or where help and funds are 

 abundant. 



Where the place is extensive, and garages, hot houses, and 

 other service buildings have their place in the scheme of things, 

 the vegetable section must, of course, bear its proper relation to 

 them. The little sketches accompanying this paper should 

 prove helpful among other things in suggesting how this relation- 

 ship can successfully be worked out. Plans and pictures tell their 

 story quickly and clearly; and so you'll find we've relied on our 

 sketch book quite as much as we have on words, and we hope the 

 sketches do their part towards bringing beauty to your garden. 



Is your place small? Is space at a premium? Then, of 

 course, you have a different problem, and the location of the 

 house or cottage and the size of the property is certain to 

 determine the location where you will plant your vegetables and 

 influence the design of the garden in which they grow. The beds 

 should be handy to the kitchen, though a place too close may 

 prove less desirable than one at a little greater distance. 



Level property is often coveted as being likely to save in time 

 and effort. Yet less level tracts ofttimes have very real charms 

 to offer. Differences in grade may prove a veritable "Open, 

 Sesame!" to beauty, especially when one's problem is the location 

 of a formal garden plot. They have, somehow, a magic touch 

 which proves effective to the garden, but spread below one, or 



