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party wall or fence on each side. We may first of all endeavour 

 to secure greater height for our creeping plants, and greater privacy 

 for ourselves, by attaching a piece of painted or creosoted wooden 

 trellis, about two feet high, to the wall. A foot-deep band of 

 galvanised wire attached to the trellis, but not so securely as 

 to be quite firm, will serve to discourage the invasion of cats. 

 Trellis and wire together will cost very little. Then, in spite of 

 the smallness of the garden, we may plant a few trees. It is 

 to be feared that we cannot soar to 

 the finest species, and must be con- 

 tent with Lombardy Poplars, except 

 in one or two selected positions, of 

 which more later. The Poplars may 

 be decapitated about eight feet above 

 the ground, and they will then break 

 out from the lower part, so that, 

 planted six feet apart, they will meet 

 and give still greater privacy. 



A walk at one side only of the 

 garden will suffice, and it will, of 

 course, follow the line of the border. 

 If six inches of brickbats and clinkers 

 are first rammed in, and then sur- 

 faced with two inches of gravel, the walk will do admirably. It 

 should be a little higher at the centre than the sides, so that rain 

 will run off. The border ought to be four feet wide, and the path 

 three feet ; then the width can be completed with a grass plot and 

 another four-feet border. 



We will not carry borders, paths, and grass plots uninterruptedly 

 to the other end of the garden, but stop them a few feet away, in 

 order to form a garden " cosy corner." This shall be screened by 

 a trellis five or six feet high, with a narrow border at its foot in 

 which to put plants for covering the trellis. The latter shall not 



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ANOTHER SUBURBAN GARDEN 



flower-beds ; D, standard Roses ; E, clumps 

 of shrubs ; F, herbaceous borders ; G, trades- 

 men's entrance. 



