INTRODUCTORY 



MAKING a garden is not the formidable thing it 

 is often supposed to be, nor caring for it when 

 once it is made half so arduous as many suppose it is. 

 Faithfulness to it, from beginning to end, makes it a 

 joy to everyone as well as a profit. 



No matter how small a plot of earth is at one's 

 command, whether it be four square feet or four acres, 

 Mother Nature, aided by man's ingenuity, has growing 

 things that will thrive in it. The thing to do is to 

 find out which of the plants you like and need will 

 grow in the space you have available for them, and 

 then learn when to plant them and how to care for 

 them and for the soil that is to nourish them when 

 once they are planted, until the happy day when they 

 will have reached their maturity, and you will have 

 had the satisfaction of giving an assuring answer to 

 the old-time question of "How does your garden 

 grow ?" 



The first step towards garden-making should be 

 with tapeline and a piece of paper. Measure up the 

 space that is to be devoted to growing things and draw 



