352 BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS 



We yield to none in our belief in the value of vegetables, and 

 would have them grown wherever the conditions are favourable; 

 but we have to take a common-sense view of this as of other 

 matters, and we are firmly of opinion that a small suburban wall- 

 enclosed garden is not the place for general vegetables. Of 

 course, the utilisation of waste ground in our towns for allot- 



ments is a different matter. Vege- 

 tables of various kinds should be 

 grown on them. 



So far as fruit is concerned, it 

 is equally open to doubt whether it 

 is worth the while of suburbanists 

 with very small gardens to attempt 

 it. The most that should be done 

 is to try a few cordon trees on the 

 party fence. Larger trees, grown in 

 the open, will take up more room 

 than can be spared, and birds are 

 likely to attack the buds. 



Planning. -It will DC gathered that 



A, dwelling-house; B, main entrance; c, c, c, we believe in restricting small suburban 



gardens to ornamental plants, with 

 which may be included grass. Vege- 

 tables and fruit may, however, be 



planted in larger ones, especially if they are big enough to be 

 divided into two or more sections. There is room for the display 

 of a considerable amount of taste and ingenuity in laying out small 

 plots. The beginner should not go along the line of least resistance, 

 which generally leads to a border round the sides, a grass plot in 

 the middle, and nothing more. We like the border, and we like 

 the grass plot, but we think that in most cases a little more can 

 be done. Perhaps the garden is a rectangle, a little longer than 

 it is broad, at the back of a row of terrace houses, with a low 



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A LARGE SUBURBAN GARDEN 



