CHAPTER III 



LAYING OUT A GARDEN AND BORDERS AROUND 

 THE HOUSE 



PERPLEXITIES assail a would-be gar- 

 dener on every side, from the day it is 

 decided to start a garden. The most attrac- 

 tive books on the subject are Enghsh; and 

 yet, beyond the suggestions for planting, and 

 the designs given in the illustrations, not 

 much help is to be derived in this latitude 

 irom following their directions. In England 

 the climate, which is without gi-eat extremes 

 of heat and cold, and the frequent rains, with 

 the soft moist atmosphere, not only enable 

 the English gardener to accomplish what 

 would be impossible for us, but permit him 

 to grow certain flowers out of doors that 

 here must be housed in the winter. Daffo- 

 dils and Xarcissi bloom in England, near the 



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