HOW TO PLANT A SMALL PLOT 



borders. The seeds of the few annuals she 

 buys do not cost more than a dollar a 

 year. Thus, for a trifling expenditure and a 

 short time every day, this woman makes her 

 humble surroundings beautiful, while her 

 soul finds an object upon which to expend 

 its love of beauty, and her thoughts have a 

 respite from the daily cares of hfe. 



IVIany people have the mistaken idea that 

 a flower garden, however small, is an expen- 

 sive luxury, and are so convinced of this, 

 that they never venture any attempt at gar- 

 dening, and pass their Hves knowing nothing 

 of its pleasures. 



Let us suppose some one is starting a sub- 

 urban home in a simple way, and see how 

 flowers can be had for many months at small 

 cost. If one has a place in a town or vil- 

 lage, the plot of ground not over fifty by 

 two hundred feet, still the possibilities are 

 great, and the owner can easily gather flowers 

 for herself and her friends from April until 

 mid-November. A house or cottage on such 



