Gardening for Amateurs 



How ugly corners are improved (a) by rounding off the verges and the use of a sundial, 

 (b) by the careful placing of a vase of flowering plants. 



of almond ; flowering plum, or cherry ; in 

 summer almost lost to view ; in autumn 

 again show casually through a patchwork of 

 gold and red and brown. Or, perhaps, most 

 pleasing of all, one sees it through a vista 

 formed by a little avenue of trees, that seem, 



by the narrow space enclosed, to have placed 

 it yards away. Such aids as these, while 

 screening and giving privacy to the garden, 

 make use of objects outside its boundaries, 

 and render them of actual value in the 

 creation of illusive distance. 



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Another method of improving a bad corner, by curving the grass margin and the use 

 of a weeping standard rose. 



