LITTLE. GARDENS 



by looking at them he might know the time of 

 day. This Is possible. Morning-glories tell us 

 when It Is not time to get up, and the evening 

 primrose announces when It Is time to play whist 

 and eat. But regardless of these rather strained 

 uses for that which has a higher use than use, 

 you will plant what you can always see and dis- 

 cover promise In It, even when to the eye It Is sere 

 and Its bare stems give no other voice to the 

 winds than the threnody of winter. 



The general treatment of a small village 

 yard will not differ materially from that of a 

 yard In the city, but allowance must be made for 

 the greater exuberance of country bloom. City 

 dust and heat and all-night glare, and the reflec- 

 tion of light and warmth from walls and fences 

 and flagstones, do not tend to vegetal health. 

 The country airs and dews will keep the plants 

 in better trim than you can keep them In the city. 

 Hence It Is well to plant them a trifle more widely 

 apart than you would in town, and to provide 

 the supports needed for heavy growth. Be care- 

 ful not to overload your trellises. I know of one 

 man who uses an old steam-pipe for the stem of 

 his trellis, and It supports a goodly weight of 

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