206 A LITTLE GARDEN THE YEAR ROUND 



with an arsenite solution is useful, but not for 

 table plants. 



The maker of a garden may well be deciding 

 now whether or not the plot of ground it com- 

 prises would become more interesting and at- 

 tractive by the planting of one or more Ever- 

 greens. There is, of course, quite as often a 

 tendency to overplant as there is to under- 

 plant, although our garden-makers are over- 

 coming this fault more and more, and are now 

 appreciative of the fact that a lawn should not 

 be choked with shrubs, even though the indi- 

 vidual specimens are very beautiful in them- 

 selves, but should be adorned with discrimina- 

 tion and judgment by placing a shrub just 

 where it is needed and only where it is needed 

 to produce as perfect an effect as possible. We 

 are also getting away from the "lonesome pine" 

 effects in Evergreen planting, and are now 

 well versed in the more cheerful arrangements 

 followed by the modern landscape architects. 



If the garden-maker wishes to save a year 

 in the matter of a maturing strawberry bed, 

 potted strawberry plants should be set out at 

 this time. In the milder parts of the country 

 peas, bushbeans, cucumbers for pickles, sakura- 



