THE JOYOUS ART OF GARDENING 



you are in the country, go into the woods and fields and find 

 out for yourself what manner of plants thrive in your locality. 

 If you are near the city, visit parks and botanical gardens. 

 If you are near Boston, don't miss the Arnold Arboretum at 

 Jamaica Plain; visit near-by nurseries nurserymen don't 

 mind in the least your coming, whether you buy or not; in 

 this way you can make a personal acquaintance with the plants 

 at their season for receiving visitors. Many of the loveliest 

 spring-flowering trees and shrubs are not so expensive as are 

 those one sees everywhere repeated to tiresomeness. 



Therefore, look and make a tentative list. The children 

 will enjoy the fun of such "choosing" immensely, when the 

 catalogue form is beyond them. Take a large piece of brown 

 paper and put a plan of your place on it, tack it up somewhere, 

 then, as you see shrub or plant, mark each name down on your 

 plan just where you think you would like to put it. So much 

 for the prospective garden. Now for the temporary one. 



TEMPORARY GARDENING 



If your soil is poor and you care to have a lawn that will 

 be the despair and admiration of your neighbors, you can do 

 nothing better than to plough the whole place, fertilize it, and 

 for this one summer turn riotously to vegetable-gardening; 

 grow corn and peas and beans in rows in your back yard; and 

 if you have enough indifference to public opinion to do the 

 like in front, plough and harrow as in the rear and sow crimson 

 clover; then border your front path with white Drummond's 

 phlox, so that the effect of the whole will be fairly good. There 

 will be no lawn-mower to menace your leisure, passers-by will 

 stop to admire the gorgeousness of the display, and in Septem- 

 ber you can plough it under, seed to grass, and you will have 

 saved enough on fertilizer and made enough on vegetables 



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