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Fig. 22. YOUR OWN HOME GROUNDS. If you are located in the country where 



things are usually less crowded than in or around the larger cities, you cannot do 



better than to set an example of how home grounds should be laid out and kept 



up. They are always a good advertisement for your business 



Don't be afraid of tackling the job; you can do it easily if you 

 want to. Get your four corners and then put a stake in the middle or 

 center of the square or oblong as the case may be. From it locate 

 your beds using a good line, a tape measure, a few stakes and a 

 hand axe to drive them with. If this is all new to you, start out by 

 drawing a 6- or 8-ft. circle with the line for the center bed and placing 

 stakes every 2 or 3 ft along that line. Another row of stakes 3 or 

 4 ft. away from the first stakes and parallel with them marks the outer 

 edge of a sod or gravel path. Another row, 3 or 4 ft. away, will be 

 the inside limit of a flower border running parallel to the walk, which, 

 again, is followed by a sod path and so on. 



Or a sod path may be laid out by stretching a line so as to divide 

 the whole square into four equal parts, the line forming the center of 

 a path running from the center bed to the outside of the plat. 

 Each of the four smaller squares can then be laid out in straight 

 beds or other shapes anyway to obtain a good layout, and give 

 an attractive setting. If you haven't enough Gannas, Geraniums, 

 Petunias or Salvias, with Goleus or Mme. Salleroi Geranium bor- 

 ders, make use of annuals. After you have looked at the layout all 

 Summer, you may want to change it for another year. Maybe that 

 Fall you will even want to plant part of it to Spring-flowering bulbs, 

 Pansies, Forget-me-nots, and English Daisies. You may still further 

 improve your layout with a sundial, gazing globe, concrete benches, 

 fountain, arches, pergolas, Rose trellises or other garden furniture. 



