10 A LITTLE GARDEN THE YEAR ROUND 



organized effort in a community to root out 

 obnoxious weeds. We all know that nothing 

 is so injurious to a flower garden as too much 

 water, or too little. A garden spot upon a 

 slope with a southern exposure is ideal for a 

 site, permitting, as it does, access to sunshine 

 — all flowers need that — and proper drainage 

 often denied to the flat garden. We are re- 

 minded, too, of the havoc north and west winds 

 wreak upon Roses and other tender plants and 

 we must plan a hedge, shrubbery or some other 

 means of shielding our gardens in the direc- 

 tions of these winds. The owner of Every- 

 man's garden tells me he chose its site away 

 from the road-front, for he not only wished his 

 flowers to be free from the dust clouds stirred 

 up by the vehicles constantly passing, but also 

 because, wishing to have the joy of spending 

 several hours each day tending his plants, he 

 sought a spot that would give him greater pri- 

 vacy than the road-front. 



We both discovered, as every one who has a 

 garden comes to discover, that dirt is not soil 

 — at least not soil in the sense of the proper 

 source of nourishment for plants. With earth 

 made up of sand and clay and decayed vege- 



