T HE 



GARDEN BEAUTIFUL 



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CHAPTER I 



PLANNING THE PLACE 



Let us begin our garden making in a sympathetic 

 spirit, seeking to cultivate contentment and peace of 

 mind as well as the soil ; to love plants and take pleas- 

 ure in caring for them ; to find relief and relaxation 

 in all gardening operations. 



Let us do the best we can with what is at hand or 

 may easily be found nor strive for the spectacular 

 nor regard our work as a task or as a weighty prob- 

 lem. In short, let us be happy, however much or lit- 

 tle we may do, for if we make our garden beautiful 

 we shall learn to love it, whether our efforts be con- 

 fined to the care of a window-box or lavished upon 

 broad acres. 



Let us be governed by a desire to please and sat- 

 isfy, not alone ourselves, but others ; not by gaining 

 unusual or unnatural results, but by making all so 

 simple and homelike that every visitor will enjoy 

 the quiet restfulness and sufficiency of the whole, 

 the charm of response to every simple and natural 

 desire. Do not attempt too much. Before beginning 

 the plan for every garden should have a plan be- 

 fore any work is done set down upon paper all the 

 things you feel an attractive homelike garden should 

 have. 



This does not mean a list of the plants and flowers 



