2 MAKING OF A FLOWER GARDEN 



garden at one side. This is, of all, the happiest ar- 

 rangement — ^that the garden shall be so situated as 

 to be visible from the living-room windows, especially 

 from those occupied by the busy mistress of the home. 

 Usually the home is built and the garden added as an 

 afterthought; this often results in an unfortunate 

 placing, both from a practical and an aesthetic point 

 of view. That the garden should be sufficiently retired 

 from the street to insure privacy, and at the same 

 time close enough to the house to become an intimate 

 part of the life of the home, goes without saying. And 

 this is only secured when the garden comes to us, 

 through vistas opened by the friendly windows, so 

 that one may pause from time to time in the d&,y's 

 employment to enjoy its beauty or run out for a mo- 

 ment or two's work among the flowers. A garden 

 that takes one far from the house will not receive 

 the constant intimate attention that is the heritage 

 of the one where odd moments are utilized ; one plans 

 for spare hours in the one, for spare moments in the 

 other. 



i The plans illustrated, while by no means the last 

 word in garden arrangement, should be helpful in 

 planning the small place garden or the arrangement 

 of a city lot. 



In Plan A the house is centrally located on the lot 

 and both a flower and a vegetable garden are arranged 

 for, with considerable planting of shrubbery about the 



