THE GARDEN AND ITS ACCESSORIES 



fashion, and the result is a very bad imita- 

 tion of something that Nature would not 

 be guilty of. 



YARD-GARDENS 



A city yard-garden must of necessity 

 have some enclosure in the shape of a wall 

 or fence, and there are as many materials 

 suitable for this purpose as there are for 

 house building. There is no reason why 

 the ugly, and for the most part untidy, 

 backyards of our large cities should not be 

 transformed into beautiful little gardens, 

 gardens that shall be of a truly architectu- 

 ral type furnished with vases, fountains, 

 and other accessories, as were the city yard- 

 gardens of the Romans and Pompeians. 



How incongruous that the well-to-do 

 people of to-day, who are so fond of com- 

 fort and refinement of living, should toler- 

 ate such conditions as exist for the most 

 part at the rear of their city houses, a 

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