14 YARD AND GARDEN 



to make impossible its improvement by the use 

 of plants of some sort, and, large or small, the 

 principles involved are invariably the same — 

 it is only the scale upon which they are applied 

 that differs. Often one may see plants in tubs 

 standing in front of store or office building, 

 or set about the entrances and corridors in the 

 busiest section of down-town districts of large 

 cities. Wherever these are in evidence the 

 passer-by does not fail to take note of them or 

 to observe gratefully the effect they produce. 



There are also other instances where garden- 

 ing is practised in almost impossible places. 

 In .some sections of some cities private resi- 

 dences are without front lawns of any descrip- 

 tion, and apparently there is no opportunity 

 for planting. Still these homes are not with- 

 out their flowers, for window boxes have been 

 fitted in place and in these vines and flowers 

 thrive and bloom. Then again — it is always a 

 hopeful sign — in the most densely populated 

 districts of the slums of our larger cities, one 

 may frequently observe a plant struggling for 

 life in some dust-streaked window of a home 

 where dire poverty, only too evident, would 

 seem to prohibit even the most feeble exhibi- 

 tion of a love for something green and growing. 



