VI 

 GARDEN-MAKING 



A Garden on a Roof 



Garden-making, where there is room for it, is interesting; 

 but garden-making where, at first glance, there is not room 

 for it, is even more interesting. The httle garden here illus- 

 trated is on a 14 x 21 tar-and-gravel roof of the rear extension 

 of a city house. Flower-boxes eighteen inches high and one 

 foot wide make the balustrade at the edge of the roof, which 

 is divided at equal distances by two higher boxes, a foot square 

 at the top; in these are planted small evergreens. At each 

 end of the "garden," against the side walls of the neighboring 

 houses, are flower-beds, the soil confined by boards eighteen 

 inches wide. These beds are filled with good loam, a layer of 

 finely broken stone being placed in the bottom for drainage. 

 The planting may be as one chooses; here it is simply eighteen 

 geraniums bordered by a row of dwarf alyssums for the bal- 

 ustrade, with white daisies and zinnias in the side boxes and 

 ampelopsis to climb the walls. The cost varies: the balxistrade 

 and boxes may be the result of well-paid carpentry or of home 

 talent and found "lumber." If you have to buy the boxes 

 the cost would be: 



Boxes $2.00 18 Geraniums $1.80 



Loam 2.00 2 Junipers 70 



12 Daisies 1.00 2 packets Alyssum 10 



2 Ampelopsis 30 



$7.90 

 This garden needs plenty of water. 



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