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No arbor or summer house seemed desirable 

 here, as every bit of sunny space was wanted 

 for practical use. A seat by the sundial may 

 furnish a resting spot without shading any of 

 the precious fruit space along the northeast 

 wall as an arbor would have done. Yet a tiny 

 gazebo on this wall at the end of the walk would 

 not use up much space nor sunlight if one very 

 much wished to have it. Personally I am al- 

 ways in favor of some out-in-the-garden shelter, 

 but for those who do not feel that such a fea- 

 ture is absolutely essential to their happiness, it 

 is perhaps as well to omit it on a small place — 

 for it is likely not to be used, where there is no 

 enthusiasm for it. 



The planting of this place is of the highest 

 economic eflSciency, as the key shows. And it 

 may be truthfully said that at least fifty per 

 cent, of this eflSciency is made possible by the 

 wall whereon the fruits are growing. Every 

 inch of this which is open toward the south 

 is covered with these, and the rear wall too, 

 which is reached only by the overhead and 

 western sun, has been planted experimentally. 

 No special drying yard or space for clothes 

 is necessary, as a clothes reel is used which fits 

 into a socket that is buried in a secondary 

 path of the rear garden. This folds up and puts 



