PLANNING THE GARDEN 



HE flower garden not being 

 one of the necessities of 

 life, in the usual sense of 

 the term, people are likely 

 to consider the making of it 

 of so little importance that 

 it is hardly worth while to 

 give the matter much consideration. Conse- 

 quently they simply dig up a bed here and there, 

 sow whatever seed they happen to have, and call 

 the thing done. 



A haphazard garden of that sort is never satis- 

 factory. In order to make even the smallest 

 garden what it ought to be it should be carefully 

 planned, and every detail of it well thought out 

 before the opening of the season. 



To insure thoroughness in this part of the 

 work I would advise the garden-maker to make 

 a diagram of it as he thinks he would like to 

 have it. Sketch it out, no matter how roughly. 

 When you have a map of it on paper you will 

 be able to get a much clearer idea of it than you 

 can obtain from any merely mental plan. 



