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picture as seen from the street. Not that blossoms 
are absent; some of the shrubs bloom and there is 
an interspersing of perennials and bulbs. The 
main note, however, is shrubbery—which is given a 
winter value by the employment of some evergreen 
shrubs and others with berries or gaily-colored 
twigs. 
Run a border down from the back door—even 
when that happens to be the kitchen entrance. 
Make a path if none exists and extend the border to 
a flower garden, consisting of more borders or a 
parterre; or to the kitchen garden, the barn or the 
poultry yard. The walk thither will be the more 
pleasant for the border, in each case. Or run a 
border from the rear of the house down to the end 
of the lawn; then straight through the plowed 
ground to the farther edge of the plot, to divide 
the fruit garden from the vegetable garden, or all 
around a rectangle of vegetables—excluding corn 
and lima beans, unless the space is large. If there 
is no plowed ground the rectangle may be a grass 
plot for tennis—or merely for drying clothes of a 
Monday. 
These back yard borders are all along the lines 
of least resistance—straight propositions. None 
of them offers any particular difficulty; in fact 
there is no easier kind of flower gardening. They 
may be long or short, wide or narrow, straight or 
curved, double or single; you consider yourself and 
your convenience here, not the judgment of the 
passerby. 
