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as a picture has when it hangs on a wall. One 

 canna or geranium standing just in front of 

 heavy foliage makes more show than do a dozen 

 plants when standing in the middle of the lawn ; 

 it is more easily cared for, and it does not 

 spoil the lawn. A flower bed in the middle of 



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Fig. 91. A good house ; but the home is only half built. 



the sward spoils a lawn, as a spot soils the 

 table-cloth. Flowers at the side, or joined to 

 the other planting, are a part of the picture ; 

 in the middle of the lawn they are only a spot 

 of color and mean nothing except that the 

 grower did not know where to put them. 



Take these suggestions to heart. Consider 

 which you like the better, Fig. 91 or 92. Con- 

 sider, also, how Fig. 92 would look if plants were 

 scattered all over the yard. 



Plants are difficult to grow in little holes in 



