12 THE LITTLE GARDEN 



by thirty, was thus divided. Immediately below the window to 

 the south lay a bed of hybrid tea roses, all across the lot, and five 

 feet six inches deep. First, however, a hedge of privet Ibota, to be 

 three or four feet high and kept trimmed, enclosed the whole 

 lot on both sides to within seven feet of the far end. Next to the 

 rose-bed there was a diying-green of grass, about twenty feet 

 square. In the comers of this green space, some two feet in to- 

 ward the centre, stood four dwarf apple trees of standard varie- 

 ties for blossom and fruit. As dwarf standards these would never 

 be so large as to interfere with the practical uses to which this 

 spot must be put. The privet hedge enclosing the ground now en- 

 closes this square of grass, leaving a space of five feet in the 

 centre of the hedge for an open walk of grass to an arbor of trel- 

 lis-work at the back of the little place. This grass-walk now 

 carries one south, first, between two beds of very simple design 

 for perennial plants; next, past two very long, narrow beds, for 

 annuals, two and a half feet wide. Back of these borders, on 

 either side, are spaces reserved for vegetables. The perennial 

 beds are separated from those for annual flowers and vegetables 

 by a low white trellis four feet high, in the simplest possible de- 

 sign of open squares; and back of this low fence to the south, 

 close below it, is a line of stepping-stones from hedge to grass- 

 walk, for the convenience of the worker in the tiny garden. 



The grass walk leads to a trellised arbor, ten feet wide by over 

 five deep, where a bench can readily be placed, and a pretty vista 

 of flowers, grass, hedge, and trees obtained. The arbor is entirely 

 framed in by tall shrubs, Lonicera tatarica and Philadelphus 

 coronarius. Imagine what a charming terminal point this is — 

 like sitting in a little grove; and though but a few feet wide and 

 deep, even here may the imagination be stimulated, and the sug- 

 gestion of a larger and more peaceful beauty be indulged in. On 

 this small lot the garage is in the extreme southwestern corner — 



