Four Plans for a 100 x 100 ft. Plot-By F. c. Leible, ss 



THE FIFTH OF A SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THE "CHEAPEST GARDENS FOR THE SMALLEST 

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



A LOT ioo feet square is exactly four New York lots. It is, 

 therefore, a common unit in the suburbs near New York 

 City and it is fairly common in smaller cities elsewhere. This is 

 the first lot we have treated that is lar^^ enough to contain a 

 kitchen garden that would supply a family with vegetables all the 

 year round. It is about the minimum on which a barn and chickens 

 can be kept with decency. It is also the smallest space on which 

 it is possible to make a refreshing landscape picture of sufficient 

 breadth to suggest country ease and pleasures. 



I. A VEGETABLE GARDEN FOR $25 



Anybody who can afford to own a home on a 100 x 100 ft. lot 

 ought to be ashamed to spend no more than $25 on his grounds. 

 Plan 1. shows how little can be accomplished for that sum, which 

 does not even include the four street trees. This plan is adapted 

 to a person who wants vegetables and fruits and likes formality. 

 The kitchen garden is disproportionately large, but if there is a 

 good flower border in front, the result may be pleasing. The price 

 includes seeds of perennial and annual flowers for this border, 

 also vegetable seeds, but not the sundial which is an expensive 

 luxury unless you are willing to let it be half an hour out of the way. 



2. AUTUMN-BLOOMING PERENNIALS, $50 



It may seem foolish to have a garden of perennial flowers for 

 autumn effect, because the one advantage of a hardy border that is 

 continually preached is that you get something every day during 

 the whole growing season. Nevertheless there are many people 



Currants : I, fifteen Fay ; 2, fifteen White Grape. Gooseberry ; 3, fifteen Downing ; 

 4, fifteen Pearl ; 5, six Champion peach ; 6, three deutzia (Deulzia crenata) ; 7, one Spirea 

 (Spiraa Bumalda) ; 8. two golden bell (Forsylhia suspensa) ; 9, six rugosa rose (Rosa 

 rugosa) ; 10, two mahonia (Berberis aquijolium) ; n, three white fringe (Chionanthus 

 Virginica.) 



1, A vegetable garden for $25.00 The sidewalk requires four American ash 



(Fraxinus Americana) which will cost $8.00 extra. 



1, Seven white Iceland peppy (Pa paver nudicaulc, var. album); 2, ten horned violet (Viola 

 cornula); 3, three everblooming sweet William (Dianlhus lalijolius); 4, fourteen cone flower 

 (Rudbcckia speciosa); 5, twelve Little Gem feverfew (Chrysanthemum Parthenium, var.); 

 6, eight pincushion flower (Scabiosa Caucasica); 7, nine Japanese anemone (Anemone Japon- 

 ica)\ 8, two torch lily (Tritoma uvaria, var. grandiflora); 9, two white snakeroot (Eupalorium 

 ageraloides); 10, four Fred Peele pompon chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum Indicum, var.); 

 ir, fiveModelke Perfection pompon chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum Indicum, var.); 12, four 

 purple cone flower (Rudbeckia purpurea); 13, two iron weed (Vernonia Arkansana); 14, five 

 horsemint (Monarda didyma); 15, five sunflower (Hclianthus rigidus); 16, nine speedwell 

 {Veronica longijolia, var. subsessilis); 17, twelve redhot poker plant (Tritoma Pflizcri or 

 Kniphofia Pfltzeri); 18, fifteen Napoleon III. pink (Dianlhus plumarius, var.); 19, five yellow 

 Iceland poppy (Papaver nudicaulc, var. sulphureum); 20, seven blue gentian (Gcntiana 

 Andrewsii); 21, eight red Iceland poppy (Papaver nudicaulc, var. coccincum); 22, eight soap- 

 wort (Saponaria Caucasica, var. flore pleno); 23, four balloon flower (Platycodon grandiflora); 

 24, six Shasta daisy (Chrysanthemum maximum, var.); 25, eight Stokes' aster (Slokcsia cyanea); 

 26, two Whirlwind Japanese anemone (Anemone Japonica, var.); 27, four Maltese cross (Lychnis 

 Chalcedonica); 28, four Otto Thalacker phlox (Phlox paniculata, var.); 29, three Princess of 

 Wales pompon chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum Indicum, var.); 30, six monkshood (Aconilum 

 Napellus); 31, five Miss Lingard phlox (Phlox paniculata, var.); 32, four William Westlake 

 pompon chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum Indicum, var.); 33, four President pompon chrysan- 

 themum (Chrysanthemum Indicum, var.); 34, three New England aster (Aster Nova-Anglia); 

 35, six Golden Fleece pompon chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum Indicum, var.); 36, four false 

 chamomile ( Boltonia latisquama); 37, eight Montclair pompon chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum 

 Indicum, var.); 38, three blue spirea (Caryoptcris Maslacanthus); 39, five rose of Sharon 

 (Hibiscus Syriacus); 40. four bush clover (Lespedeza Sieboldii); 41, three snowball (Viburnum 

 Opulu var. sterile); 42, five purple fringe (Rhus Cotinus); 43. three eulalias (Miscanlhus Sinensis, 

 var. zebrina); 44, five California privet (Ligustrum ovalijolium); 45, three false indigo 

 (Amorpha jruticosa); 46, three Rugosa roses (Rosa rugosa); aj, two Japanese barberry 

 (Berberis Thunbergi); 48, four hardy hydrangea (Hydrangea paniculata, var. grandiflora). 



A garden of autumn-blooming perennials costing $50. The four elms 

 planted in the sidewalk will cost $8 extra 



who want gardens that are at their best in autumn, when ordinary 

 gardens fail. For example in Lenox and throughout the Berk- 

 shires, September is the height of the season. Every private school 

 wants to put its best foot forward to greet the new pupils. And 

 everybody who goes away for the summer would like to have a 

 hearty welcome rather than signs of suspended animation. 



It would cost only $20 to have this lawn taken care of for ten 

 weeks during the summer. Your local florist could supply a man 

 to cut the grass and weed the borders for $1.75 or $2 a day. Or, 

 if you have to stay home, while your wife and children are away, 

 you could keep the place in good order by working an hour a day. 

 It is true that this garden has no flowers in spring, but there are 

 flowers everywhere else in spring, and a man who has only $50 to 



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