THE JOYOUS ART OF GARDENING 



grass in the good old fashion, and no reason why washing itself 

 may not be done in a vine-covered arbor instead of a hot 

 kitchen. All of which would make much for the comfort of 

 life in the suburbs and the successful liming of that domestic 

 bird of passage, the servant. 



A drying-yard, moreover, is not difficult to arrange. The 

 essentials are that it should be convenient to the laundry and 

 placed where it will not obtrude itself on the garden or lawn. 

 There are a score of ways of screening it a lattice, a grape- 

 trellis, tall-growing shrubs, such as lilacs, viburnums, or rose 

 of Sharon. A hedge of hemlock will give welcome protection 

 in the winter, but since this is comparatively slow-growing, a 

 trellis and vines would need to be employed as an understudy 

 until the hemlocks were ready to act their part. The lattice 

 is the simplest and most expeditious; on it may be trained 

 vines or climbing shrubs, and, so dealt with, it makes a de- 

 lightful background for the flowers of the garden. It may 

 even open into the garden through a fetching little gateway 

 and the laundress, when hanging out clothes, may look down 

 a garden path and be blessed with the survey of a pleasing vista. 



As for the outbuildings, while they should not occupy the 

 centre of the stage and the calcium light, they may certainly 

 be becomingly disposed in the background. On a lovely little 

 half-acre place in Charleston there are stable and servants' 

 quarters, chicken-runs and turkeys, all comfortably provided 

 for, with ample room besides for the most charming flower- 

 garden in Charleston. But the arrangement is very simple. 

 The house stands about thirty feet from the street and faces 

 east; on the south side are the piazzas, overlooking the lawn, 

 which runs between a vine-covered wall and the house straight 

 back from the street to the flower-garden. On the north, be- 

 tween the house and the boundary wall, are the entrance- 



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