THE CITY YARD 



things, and have grown them with success in a 

 city yard, my golden-rod standing head high, 

 with stems hke willow branches for girth and 

 stoutness; my buttercups unfolding In a very 

 cloud — hundreds of shining blooms; my daisies 

 starring the perspective with copious silver; and 

 I know a front yard, two minutes from one of the 

 busiest streets in New York, that, in the season. 

 Is beautiful with wild asters. In the plan, the 

 objects numbered i are hydrangeas, rhododen- 

 drons or any other tough bushes that mark the 

 beginning of the yard without too much exact- 

 ness, and are not high enough to conceal those a 

 little beyond. Those marked 2 are taller; welge- 

 lia, black currant, syringa, rudbeckia or any such, 

 while number 3 are higher yet : privet, lilac and 

 shadbush. The forms marked 4 are trees, 

 preferably pines, hemlocks, firs or spruces, If 

 your yard has fresh air and is near the outskirts; 

 if not, don't doom these children of liberty to 

 the crowd; choose. Instead, some deciduous trees, 

 or even erect a narrow arbor, or a trellis, to extend 

 across the end of the yard, and clothe it heavily 

 with vines. Number 5 stands for flower-beds. 

 The arrangement In this manner of planting, 

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