THE CITY YARD 



edged the fence. We concealed a part of that 

 fence with glories, sweet peas, wild beans, and 

 tried to conceal the rest of it with vines that 

 made amazing pictures in the seedsmen's cata- 

 logues, but that refused on any terms to enter 





Fig. 6. — I, Wild garden; 2, flower-beds; 3, rockery; 

 4, shrubs and hardy plants; 5, jimson-vveed. 



into the picture made by our premises — a cir- 

 cumstance that filled me with grief and astonish- 

 ment, for I had supposed that seedsmen's cata- 

 logues were as true as the Farmer's Almanac. 

 We had one thing in that yard that nobody else 

 had, willingly, and we were proud of it, namely, 



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