THE JOYOUS ART OF GARDENING 



AN ALL-SUMMER FLOWER-GARDEN 



The owners of this garden are blessed with a love of flowers 

 and a sunny back yard, 26J/2 x 50 feet. Next to the house a 

 grassed space, used for a drying-yard and service-yard, is sep- 

 arated from the little formal garden by a screen made of bam- 

 boo poles cut in six-foot lengths, thrust in the ground like 

 bean-poles at intervals of one foot; these are secured by strings 

 run horizontally, making a square-meshed lattice; on this 

 grow sweet peas. The gateway is seven feet and a half high 

 and three feet wide. The little garden space thus secured is 

 grassed, except for the flower-beds which run beside the fences, 

 and for those which make up the little formal garden. The 

 beds are filled with stocks and China asters in dwarf varieties 

 and are bordered with sweet alyssum. 



If the circular garden seems a bit complicated, have, in- 

 stead, a straight grass path down the centre of the garden, 

 with a narrow, oblong bed on each side. 



Here is the cost of planting: 



PERENNIAL PLANTS ANNUALS (SEEDS) 



24 Japanese Anemones. . . . $3.00 Stocks $ .10 



12 Hollyhocks 75 Asters 10 



12 Larkspur 1 .00 Mignonette ( 1 A ounce) 25 



12 Perennial Asters 1 .00 Dwarf Alyssum (1 ounce) . .25 



36 Pansies 2.25 Sweet Peas (1 ounce) 10 



12 Monk's-Hood 3 . 00 California Poppies (2 



12 Sweet-William 1 .80 packets) 10 



12Boltonia 1.80 



$ .90 

 $14.60 Bamboo Screen 3.00 



If annuals only were used, or if the perennials were raised 

 from seed, the cost would be much reduced. 



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