Gardening for Amateurs 



A design that might be greatly improved by veiling the boundaries and 

 planting at the corners of the walks. 



It is certain that you 

 the house walls of your 

 shut them out 

 you also shut in 

 the garden, at 

 once defining its 

 limits and lessen- 

 ing its apparent 

 size. If, how- 

 ever, the outlook 

 is veiled with 

 attractive small 

 trees or big 

 shrubs, with giant 

 roses such as 

 Conrad Meyer, 

 with almond and 

 flowering Peach, 

 Laburnum, and 

 Barberry, or 

 purple -leaved 

 Plum (Prunus 

 Pissardi), with 

 Clematis or 

 climbing rose, 

 why, the outside 

 world becomes a 

 wonderland of 

 mystery to your 

 visitors, and in 

 lesser degree to 

 yourself, seen, as 

 it is, in glimpses 

 only through a 

 fairy forest of 

 leaf and flower. 

 My own garden 

 looks out on 

 commonplace 



cannot get rid of brick walls and staring 

 neighbour ; if you the tree branches bud 



The busy man's garden. Easy to manage, 

 and of restful appearance. 



chimneys, but after 

 in spring, and until 

 the leaves fade 

 and die in 

 autumn, I see 

 little of them, 

 and then only 

 through the green 

 leaves and glow- 

 ing blossoms of 

 shrubs and climb- 

 ing plants. 



Problem of 

 the Paths. The 

 arrangement of 

 the paths is of 

 the first import- 

 ance ; they may 

 so easily mar the 

 charm of the 

 whole garden. 

 Most fearful of 

 all are those that 

 wriggle through- 

 out their full 

 length and lie 

 like some gigan- 

 tic snake on the 

 irn 'mid. A grace- 

 fully curving 

 walk adds im- 

 mensely to the 

 attractiveness of 

 a garden, while 

 curves that are 

 without grace in- 

 troduce an ele- 

 ment of unrest 

 (juite foreign to 



