LITTLE GARDENS 



driveway from the road to the barn or shed is 

 muddy or otherwise unpleasant, it can be largely 

 concealed from the view of the house-dwellers 

 by running a hedge along its inner side, opposite 

 the slender strip of green on which potted shrubs 

 have been placed, or large and hardy bushes 

 planted. A hedge is set along the rear of the 

 premises, not to close the view of the " truck 

 patch " merely, but to afford a background for 

 the formal garden, the interest of which can be 

 heightened if the circle In Its center Is a little 

 pool or fountain. 



Some of the trees on the premises ought to 

 be evergreens. You are grateful for them in 

 winter. A little grove of firs and some rock work 

 can diversify a far corner, or both of the remoter 

 corners, In case you have no " truck patch," and 

 no barn. And these evergreens need not be 

 pines, hemlocks, spruces, cedars, yews, balsams 

 and the like; they can include the rhododendron, 

 andromeda, wintergreen, myrtle, and other 

 shrubs that stay bright till after Christmas. The 

 variety of smilax known as cat brier scratches 

 and makes a tangle, but It Is a bit of winter color 

 that serves as well as holly for a Christmas deco- 

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