Chapter IX 

 MISCELLANEOUS GARDENING ADVICE 



A CITY YARD 



The following brief plan might be adapted to suit 

 the small area of a city yard, and the photograph op- 

 posite this page, of a pergola for the rear of such a 

 yard is a delightful suggestion for the town garden. 

 Covered with Wistaria bloom in May, and climbing 

 Nasturtium in September, how cool and green within 

 and how bright and cheerful this patch of country 

 color brought into the city's barrenness ! When the 

 laundry can be elsewhere provided for, the grass plot 

 may be filled with Daffodils and the two periods of 

 Tulips, covering a season of six weeks. Later the 

 green sod gives no sign of the hidden bulbs. The 

 small beds at the four corners overflow with annuals 

 early and late. The most suitable of these for a semi- 

 shady yard in spring and September are Pansies fall- 

 sown and spring-sown, or else fall-sown Pansies fol- 

 lowed by white and blue Ageratum, compact Petunias 

 or Torenia, or else the Tulips mixed in with Viola 

 comuta, h. p. The latter plant in partial shade with 



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