LITTLE GARDENS 



hollow, a pond, a ledge or a tree. You see that, 

 In the first sketch, no such interruptions exist, so 

 we had to make them by planting trees where 

 the curves were desired. The continuous curve 

 In the second conceit Is wholly arbitrary; It Is a 

 softening of the more usual rectangular lay-out, 

 and Is designed to be viewed from the second- 

 floor windows. The first device Is less formal; 

 still, if It misllkes you, (and I don't like it, alto- 

 gether,) or If the folks next door protest that 

 you have no right to plant trees that will throw 

 a killing shade on their flower-beds and extend 

 their roots under the fence, to the stealing of 

 moisture — because folks who live next door to 

 people are apt to do just this, being an inconsid- 

 erate company — you can subdue your yard to 

 good uses, none the less, and be agreeable, in 

 spite of being more customary than if you raised 

 jungles. If they will not let you have trees, or 

 if, as Is more probable, you decide that you 

 haven't room enough, your fence will stare you 

 out of countenance, and a back fence must have 

 been Invented as a part of the punishment for 

 leaving Eden. There Is no more fearsome beast 

 than your back fence. It is of close-fitted boards, 



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