LITTLE GARDENS 



Fig. 5. 



The shaded part expresses flagstones or as- 

 phalt; the rest Is grass. I had the run of that 

 pattern of yard for a season or two, and as It was 

 the playground of sundry small boys of an In- 

 quiring turn respecting vegetation, which Im- 

 pelled them to take plants out of the earth now 

 and then, to see how they were getting on, I did 

 not undertake anything difficult. I adopted the 

 simple scheme shown In Fig. 6. 



Grass was the principal attraction here, yet, 



on a summer evening after a good showering 



with the hose there was a deal of gaiety In the 



foreground and among the plebeian bushes that 



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