BOOK OF GARDEN PLANS 17 
a smaller lot or larger house the border shrubbery must be nearly omitted, 
and even the planting about the foundations reduced. If we wish to have 
fiower effects, a well-filled window box or two will greatly add to the ap- 
pearance of the house front, while a narrow belt of hardy annuals near 
the Sumacs will give color and flowers for cutting all summer. 
Whatever we do, let us not get round or star-shaped beds in the lawn 
itself; there is little enough grass as it is without chopping it up into 
flower beds. 
Instead of annuals in an informal border at the rear some people will 
prefer a few hardy perennial herbs, as German and Siberian Ins, Garden 
Phlox and Creeping Phlox, Larkspurs, Coreopsis, Pinks, Day Lilies, and 
other such permanent plants. Quite a show can be obtained with ten 
dollars’ worth of roots, or even with less, if you choose and plant wisely. 
Hardy bulbs, as Scilla, Crocus, and Poet’s Narcissus, perhaps five hundred 
altogether. may be cheaply naturalized under the Spireas and Hydran- 
geas and elsewhere, and will be most welcome in early spring. 
After the main arrangement has been decided upon, these details will be 
an interesting feature to study and live by as one’s garden knowledge 
grows from year to year. 
A SIMPLE COUNTRY HOME 
There has been little expenditure in this garden save of love—and that is all that most 
of them require 
