2 THE GARDENER'S COMPANION 



Now to make these charming corners, you must 

 plan with care, taking advantage of any rise or 

 fall in your ground, or of any natural shade or 

 shelter from surrounding objects. But if you 

 have no natural features or advantages on your 

 ground, if it seems to be the most flat and uncom- 

 promising bit of land possible, you can yet do 

 much to improve matters. 



Possibly it is a new house you are building, and, 

 if so, you can have the earth that is dug out for 

 the foundations, placed where you wish to form 

 your banks of evergreens, or other dividing lines 

 in your garden ; this will give an immense help to 

 the appearance for the first few years, when the 

 newly planted shrubs look so sadly small and in- 

 adequate. 



Then in planning out the arrangement of your 

 garden, and the paths which are to lead from one 

 part of it to another, you must use all the ingenuity 

 possible ; if your garden is square, you must dis- 

 guise its squareness by constructing blinds and 

 screens of bushes and small trees, to divide it in 

 various directions. 



If your garden is very long and narrow, you 

 must construct the lines of your paths and beds so 



