LAYING OUT A GARDEN 



the world don't you have an Itahan garden?" 

 No explanation of the lack of taste that such 

 a garden would indicate in connection with 

 the house, had any effect. The simple, formal 

 gardens of a hundred years ago, with Box- 

 edged paths, borders and regular Box-edged 

 beds, are always beautiful, never become 

 tiresome, and have the additional merit of 

 being appropriate either to the fine country- 

 place or the simple cottage. 



For a small plot of ground, like the one 

 before mentioned, the plan of which is on 

 page 24, the matter is simple, because of the 

 natural limitations. I love to see a house 

 bedded, as it were, in flowers. This is par- 

 ticularly suitable for the usual American 

 country house, colonial in style, or low and 

 rambling. JMake a bed perhaps four feet 

 wide along three sides of the house, — south, 

 east and west. Close against the house plant 

 the vines. Every one has an individual taste 

 in vines, — more so, perhaps, than in any other 

 ornamental growth. If the house be of stone, 



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