30 A PLEA FOR HARDY PLANTS 



This garden is the most effective, beautiful, and interesting in the 

 neighborhood, yet is made on a lot usually considered too small to 

 have gardening possibilities. It cost more than most gardens of this 

 size, but it is complete ; nothing more need be bought. On the con- 

 trary, the overflow of the natural increase is brightening the gardens 

 of neighbors and friends. This garden has also privacy, which I hold 

 is as desirable in a garden as it is in the living-rooms of the house. 



Suburban lots of one hundred and fifty feet frontage, and from 

 that to an acre or two acres in extent, are popular sizes in this country. 

 Such lots admit of a combination border made with hardy shrubs and 

 plants one of the most attractive ways in which they can be used. 

 Such a border will vary, of course, in size, shape, and formation, with 

 the requirements of individual places, and must be designed to suit 

 them; but let us suppose a lot of one hundred and fifty feet frontage 

 and two hundred feet depth, with an eastern exposure. The house is 



CROCUSES NATURALIZED IN OPEN WOODS 



