LITTLE GARDENS 



other boys, who had not heard that the wire was 

 loaded, in order to initiate them. You suffer 

 from parasites, no matter what you grow — 

 parasites in the forms of insects, weeds and boys. 

 You can kill the weeds and insects. 



It is by the judicious use of trees that barns, 

 stables, henneries and other structures that were 

 anciently a sorrow to the eye, however much of 

 a pride to the understanding, are concealed from 

 observation, yet the tendency is to put up a barn 

 so much larger than the home, and so much 

 handsomer than the places in which many of the 

 builders were born, that if I were they I would 

 not screen these architectural triumphs by so 

 much as a pea-vine. Where the outbuildings are 

 not a source of pride, however, it is well to 

 thicken the vegetation between them and the 

 house. Perhaps in any case the stable is the 

 better for a hedge about it, for while the upper 

 part of that building may satisfy all demands of 

 an esthetic nature, the lower portions are com- 

 monly stained with reminders of earthiness, and 

 green is pleasanter. Beside, apart from the pur- 

 pose which a hedge will serve in this conceal- 

 ment, its repetition of the long, flat lines of lawn^ 



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