HOW TO PLANT A SMALL PLOT 



After a year or two, the owner of the cot- 

 tage may want to increase the flower garden, 

 and the next place to plant is close about 

 the house. It is to be taken for granted 

 that the house and piazzas have the proper 

 gutters. This is necessary, of course, for the 

 preservation of the house, and without gut- 

 ters the drip from the eaves would be such 

 that nothing could grow directly against the 

 house. 



The bed might be three feet wide and 

 run across the front of the house on either 

 side of the steps. The owner would proba- 

 bly wish to plant vines over the porch or 

 piazza, in case it has not already been done. 

 The best for this purpose are mentioned 

 elsewhere. 



Should the house front the south, east or 

 west, nearly everything can be grown; but 

 should it face the north, nothing but Ferns 

 and Rhododendrons would be successful on 

 the front. Dahlias of the Cactus variety, in 

 different colours, could be planted at the back 



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