SUBURBAN GARDENING 



gates, and the driveway leads direct to the stable, it being 

 assumed that visitors are able to walk the twenty or thirty 

 steps from the street to the house. Along this boundary 

 wall are the servants' quarters, a low brick building, then car- 

 riage-house and stable, then the chicken-run, which is narrower 

 and extends to the end of the lot. Between chicken-run and 

 garden is a woven- wire fence; in front of this there is a rose- 

 trellis. A little arched gate at the end of one of the paths 

 across the garden admits to the chicken-yard, through which 

 the hens may look, as Moses into Canaan, but not enter. 

 Before the stable and behind the house is the service yard, 

 enclosed by a fence. Here there is a huge hackberry-tree, 

 and from this yard also a little arched gate leads in line with 

 the rear door of the house and opens into the garden. 



This is merely one way; there are many others. There is 

 no reason why a suburban place should not be adapted to the 

 convenience of its owner, why it should not have a tool-house, 

 a cold-frame, a little workshop; why the stable or garage 

 should not be conveniently placed. They need not be obtru- 

 sive, but they also need not skulk. In short, one should re- 

 member his Longfellow and his childhood: 



" Nothing useless is or low; 

 Each thing in its place is best." 



The crux of the matter is to get the thing into its right place, 

 which is what Mr. Longfellow did not tell us. 



After the house is peacefully at anchor in its environment, 

 on friendly terms with its neighbors, and the outbuildings are 

 properly and comfortably disposed, the suburbanite, with a 

 sigh of relief, turns to his own preferred gardening. One may 

 have no end of amusement in a suburban garden. If horticul- 

 turally inclined, one will have his tiny greenhouse and cold- 



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