LITTLE GARDENS 



the shelter of visitors. Well, here Is a double 

 curve : the oval. Quite like a frame for a minia- 

 ture, Isn't It? 



Fig. 2. — I, Flower-beds; 2, trees and bushes. 



Mind, I don't say that this Is pictorlally bad, 

 if I did make it myself, but only that it Is un- 

 American and impractical; that the young In- 

 dians In the family, seeing their bat or ball where 

 they dropped It, at the farther end of the yard, 

 would make a rush for it, and would wholly 

 neglect the appointed means of arriving. No- 

 body would toddle around the oval but old per- 

 sons, or guests whom you had Invited to admire 

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