Four Plans for a 75 x 100 ft. Plot-By F. c. Leibk, ; 



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1. Dwarf pear, Angouleme (6) Pyrus communis, var. 



2. Dwarf pear, Clapp (6) Pyrus communis, var. 



3. Dwarf pear, Bartlett (4) Pyrus communis, var. 



4. Peach, Champion (4) Primus Persica, var. 



5. Strawberry, Brandywine (50) Fragaria Indica, var. 



6. European linden (3) 



7. Dwarf privet (6) 



Tilia Europcea 

 Ligustrum Ibota, var. Rege- 

 liana 

 8. Tartarian honeysuckle (1) Lonicera Tarlarica 



Plan 1. A utility garden for fruit and vegetables costing $25 



THE FOURTH OF A SERIES OF ARTICLES BY AN EXPERIENCED LANDSCAPE GARDENER ON THE "CHEAPEST GARDENS 

 FOR THE SMALLEST LOTS," EACH OF WHICH GIVES FOUR SOLUTIONS COSTING $25, $50, $75 AND $100 RESPECTIVELY 



IN February I showed what could be done 

 with the smallest and most desperate 

 of all typical city lots — the plain 25 x 100 ft., 

 which is the disgraceful unit in New York 

 City. In July, I took two of these units, 

 viz. a space 50 x 100 ft. Let me now take 

 three of these units (a space of 75 x 100 ft.), 

 as hundreds of suburbanites do, who want 

 to own their homes, but cannot afford to 

 spend mere than $6,000 for house and lot; 

 yet must live within an hour of a great city; 

 and are determined to have as much of coun- 

 try life as is possible. 



This is about the minimum space for 

 enjoying the type of living above sketched 

 and, unhappily, land is so high within the 

 ''hour dead line" that it is hard to get a 

 lot of this size and build a suitable eight- 

 room house for less than $8,000. 



I. A UTILITY GARDEN FOR $25 



A hard-headed, "practical" person who 

 wants fruits, eggs and vegetables might find 

 this plan appropriate for a country village, 

 but it would not fit the suburbs of a great 

 city, because the boys would never let the 

 fruit ripen. 



This plan, of course, makes no pretensions 

 to landscape gardening, and if a man wants 

 to be as severely practical as this, it is a ques- 

 tion whether he should not have a high 

 hedge in front of his place. 



The space is too small for full-sized fruit 

 trees, but the dwarfs will be very satisfactory. 

 The varieties have been selected with an 

 eye to canning. The peaches are placed 

 in the poultry yard where they will provide 

 shade for the chickens and where the chickens 

 will have a chance to pick up the curculios. 

 The dots in the chicken yard are sunflowers. 



2. A TRIPLE GARDEN FOR $50 



This plan provides a miniature landscape 

 garden in the front yard, an old-fashioned 

 garden back of that and a vegetable garden 

 in the rear. 



All the hedging material which encloses 

 the vegetable garden and drying yard is 

 included in the $50, and also the hemlock 

 hedge which will eventually shut off the 

 flower garden from the street and make a 

 pretty background for the flowers. How- 

 ever, you must be content with small plants 

 to start with. Meanwhile, the garden will 

 be partly hidden by the informal masses 

 of shrubbery marked 9, 10 and n. 



The main feature of the old-fashioned 

 flower garden is the five rose arches, one of 

 which marks the entrance from the vegetable 

 garden. For five dollars more you can get 

 enough seeds to fill the garden with annuals 

 the first year and perennials the second. 



3. SHRUBBERY AND WATER GARDEN, $75 



A man usually likes to have his place look 

 well, but he doesn't want to be bothered with 

 the details. A woman wants a chance to 



1. Norway Maple (3) 



2. Rugosa roses (6) 



3. Common barberry (2) 



4. Japan barberry (2) 



5. Blue spirea (2) 



6. Allspice bush (3) 



7. Weigela (3) 



8. Pearl bush (3) 



9. Golden bell (6) 



10. Lilac (3) 



11. Hardy hydrangea (6) 



Acer planlanoidcs 

 Rosa rugosa 

 Berberis vulgaris 

 Bcrberis Thunbergii 

 Caryopteris Mastacanlkus 

 Calycanthus floridus 

 Diervilla florid a 

 Exochorda grandiflora 

 Forsythia suspensa, var. For- 



lunei 

 Syringa vulgaris 

 Hydrangea paniculata, var. 



grandiflora 



12. Red osier dogwood (2) 



13. Reeves' spirea (3) 



14. Waterer's spirea (1) 



15. Farquhar rose (4) 



16. Crimson Rambler rose (4) 



17. Dorothy Perkins rose (2) 



18. Hemlock (2) 



19. California privet (19s) 



20. Currants (13) Si. 95 extra 



Cornus alba 



Spiraa Cantonitnsis 



Reevesiana) 

 Spiraea Bumalda var. 



thony Walerer 

 Rosa mulliflora, var. 

 Rosa mulliflora, var. 

 Rosa mulliflora, var. 

 Tsuga Canadensis 

 Ligustrum ovalijolium 

 Ribes rubrum 



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Plan 2. A garden of vegetables, flowers and shrubs. The permanent planting costs $ r .O 



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