How to make & manage 

 a Garden 



CHAPTER I 

 CHOOSING THE SITE 



THE title of this book would seem to include the whole 

 range of gardening, but it is not the author's intention to 

 go into the detailed culture of the many plants rendering 

 a garden ornamental and useful, but rather to point out 

 the general laws which govern the making and manage- 

 ment of a garden. 



Locality. 



Many readers will already own a garden, but as there 

 are undoubtedly others who intend to take possession, and 

 wish to start on the most advanced principles of economy, 

 the considerations which should actuate and govern their 

 choice had better be fully stated. Unfortunately for the 

 imparter of knowledge, there are no rules in gardening 

 which are not governed by an overwhelming mass of ex- 

 ceptions. The laws which may lead to success in one 

 part of the country might bring failure in another ; which 



