THE MAKING OF A 

 FLOWER GARDEN 



CHAPTER I 



THE LOCATION 



"When one takes up the subject of the location of a 

 garden one has to consider at the start just what ad- 

 vantages are afforded by the piece of ground com- 

 prising one's special domain. If it consists merely 

 of a city lot with its few feet of turf in front and a 

 few square yards of wall-enclosed back yard, the prob- 

 lem will be the simple one of making that little patch 

 of ground as attractive and prolific of bloom and 

 beauty as possible ; and there are harder problems by 

 far than this, though an undeveloped city back yard 

 may look hopeless enough to the uninitiated. The 

 small town lot affords greater advantages, as there is 

 usually considerable space at the side or rear of the 

 dwelling to allow of mass planting about boundaries 

 and often of the laying out of a more or less formal 



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