22 YARD AND GARDEN 



test to greater degree one's taste and skill; in 

 the contracted area more selection and more re- 

 jection, -better judgment and more care in ar- 

 rangement must be exercised, whereas, in a l)ig 

 place, trees, shrubs and broad expanse of lawn 

 are frequently sufficient in themselves to create 

 the picture. 



ELEMENTARY PLANNING 



The person who has grown flowers for a year 

 or two is in little need of the suggestion that 

 even a season's garden should be planned. 

 There is enough delight in the work — in the an- 

 ticipation to which it gives rise — to make it 

 reasonably certain that the garden will be 

 planned in some fashion before the planting 

 time is at hand. In fact, all of us, even the 

 novice, do more or less planning before we 

 plant. Frequently we do not recognize it and 

 really persuade ourselves that we plant as the 

 desire seizes us. But, when it is considered 

 that beds must be dug in the spring, it must 

 be apparent that, in determining where they 

 are to be situated, we have, in an elementary 

 manner at least, planned our garden. 



It may seem absurd to speak of planning a 

 single bed. One desires to plant so many 



