CHAPTER IV 



HOW TO PLANT A SMALL PLOT 



T AM frequently surprised to hear people 

 say, "Oh, a flower garden is very nice, 

 but such a trouble ! " I have heard this 

 expression several times from friends who 

 employ a number of men and have large 

 places with extensive lawns, shrubberies and 

 vegetable gardens, but without flowers, ex- 

 cept, perhaps, a few annuals growing among 

 the vegetables. 



Yet no one is indifferent to the beauty of 

 a garden, or unobservant of the improvement 

 which even a few flowers can make around 

 the humblest cottage. Think of the pretty 

 thatched cottages one sees everywhere in 

 England and France, covered to the eaves 

 with Roses and Clematis, and surrounded by 

 flowers growing wherever they can find root 



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