LITTLE GARDENS 



cause the slender points of soil exposed in the 

 outlining of such extravagant devices are easily 

 crossed by grass roots, and by reason of their nar- 

 rowness are hard to reach with a hoe, except by 

 disturbing the roots of flowers and plants of 

 showy foliage that you may have set out there. 

 If you have been so unwise as to make a star bed 

 with long points In a yard containing witch-grass, 

 you may as well decide to sit up all night with 

 it and keep the grass out. If the people on either 

 side of you, or behind you, have allowed this 

 dreaded vegetable to establish itself on their 

 premises, it will surely crawl under your fence, 

 and the remedy Is to spade deeply, vigorously 

 and frequently all around that partition. It is 

 one advantage of a brick wall, such as we seldom 

 use in cities any more, that forbidden growths 

 do not reach beneath It. 



Supposing that you have the usual yard, but 

 without walks, so that you are at liberty to lay 

 off your own, you can scheme one to this ef- 

 fect, which, as you observe. Is merely a modi- 

 fication of Fig. 2 ; a compromise. If you like. In 

 that it gives some direct path, and less of the 

 oval. 



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