THE GENERAL PLAN OR THEORY OF THE PLACE 31 
labor than would have been needed to care for a plantation of 
much greater size and which would have given flowers every 
day from the time the birds began to nest in the spring until 
the last robin had flown in November. 
Flower-borders. 
We should acquire the 4 habit of speaking of the 
flower-border. The border %a planting of which we have 
spoken sets bounds "to the place, and makes it 
one’s own. The per- son lives inside his place, not 
on it. Along these borders, against groups, often 
by the corners of ¥ 
y Pave 
the residence or in 
front of porches — 
these are places for 
flowers. Ten flow- 
ers against 
a background are more oka 
Bede than a hundred 7» * oe ne 
in the open yard. 
I have asked a professional artist, Mr. Mathews, to draw me 
the kind of a flower-bed that he likes. It is shown in Fig. 21. 
