The Cheapest Gardens for the Smallest Lots— By a. Lieble, a 



TEN COMPLETE PLANTING PLANS FOR CITY LOTS, THE LARGEST OF WHICH IS 

 50X100 FT., WHILE THE COSTLIEST SOLUTION INVOLVES AN EXPENSE OF ONLY $100 



I DO not want to spend very much 

 -*■ money, yet I do want to have a few 

 plants around my house." This is an every- 

 day problem that faces the majority of people 

 who have just moved out into the country. 

 In the average city lot of the regulation 

 25 x 100 feet, there is no opportunity for 

 landscape effect. Whatever is done, in the 

 way of planting, should be with the idea of 

 decorating and enlivening. The restrictions 

 are so emphatic that there is very little room 

 for individual design. The house itself 

 usually occupies practically one-half of the 

 plot and my idea is that in front the plants 

 should merely be a sort of basal trimming 

 for the building, and in the rear I would 

 strive to hide the ugliness of the boundary 

 wall or fence by planting a selection of orna- 

 mental flowering shrubs. These I would 

 select to give a display of bloom over as long 

 a period as possible. On the other hand, 

 I have found it quite practical to make the 

 back-yard not only ornamental but useful 

 as well, by including in the planting a few 

 fruit trees or berry bushes. Some people want 

 to realize as much money value as possible 

 from their home garden. In that case, the city 

 lot can be rescued from ugliness at a cost not 

 exceeding five dollars, but in this case I rely 

 on the fruit trees themselves to give the 

 bright floral effects in the spring months. By 

 all means plant a shade tree along the curb 

 line in front of the house. 



If you are seeking a maximum effect for a 

 minimum expense, plant just one tree on the 

 street line and let that tree be a well-formed 

 specimen of respectable size. A 9- or 10-foot 

 high Norway maple (Acer platanoides), I 

 think will give more satisfaction than any 

 other tree. It makes a beautifully formed 

 trim head, it leafs early in the spring, all 

 summer its foliage is richly dark, and in the 

 fall it becomes the most luminous golden 

 yellow of all the large trees. Added to these 

 facts is this; that the Norway maple is not 

 easily damaged by storm or weather and is 

 not usually prone to suffer from insect attacks. 



In the cheapest solution of the 25 x 100 

 foot lot, peach and pear trees give the flower 

 in early spring, the weigela (Diervilla florida), 

 in early summer and the late summer sees 

 the hydrangea (H. panicidata, var. grandi- 

 flora). Around the porch, the Japan Honey- 

 suckle (Lonicera Japonica, var. Halliana) 

 may give greenery at all times. It is a very 

 easy matter to spend fifty dollars on the same- 

 sized plot. I assume here that the owner is 

 able to buy all his fruits and vegetables, and 

 wants his garden to be merely "a thing of 

 beauty." Evergreens are not to be used in 

 these small lots, because they are too expen- 

 sive. The only desirable kinds would cost 

 anywhere from two to ten dollars and the 

 cheaper, quicker growing ones require a great 

 deal more room than can be given. 



For fifty dollars, a succession of bloom can 



HOUSE 



VEGETABLE G/WDCN 



I. One Norway maple (9 to 10 ft.) Acer platanoides 



One weigela (4 ft.) 

 3. One hardy hydrangea (4 ft.) 



Diervilla florida 

 Hydrangea pani- 

 culate var. gran- 

 diflora 



51.00 

 •50 



Four Hall's honeysuckle 



5. Two peach 



6. Two pear 



Total Cost, Eleven plants S5.00 



Lonicera Japonica, 

 var. Halliana 

 (L. Halliana) 

 Prunus Persica 

 Pyrus communis 



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1. One Norway maple (10 ft.) 



2. One rose of Sharon 



3. Two hybrid deutzia 



4. Two Japanese virgin's bower 



5. Two Jackman's clematis 



Acer platanoides 

 Hibiscus Syriacus 

 Deutzia Lemoinei 

 Clematis panicidata 

 Clematis Jackman ' 



•50 

 1. 00 



6. One Carolina allspice 



7. One weigela 



8. Six H. T. roses 



9. One lilac 

 10. Eight blackberries 



Total Cost, Twenty-five plants §10.00 



Calycanlhus floridus .50 



Diervilla florida .50 



2.70 



Syringa vulgaris .50 



.80 



HOUSE 





1. One elm (12 ft.) 



2. Twenty-two California privet 



3. Three Chinese peony 



Two plantain lily 

 Three showy larkspur 

 Three spiked loosestrife 



&1.50 



1- So 

 -50 



7. Three astilbe 



8. Three perennial coreopsis 

 q. Two Chinese wistaria 



10. One crimson rambler rose 



XJlmus Americana 

 Ligustrum ovali- 



folium 

 Paonia albiflora, 



var. Sinensis 

 Funkia subcordata 

 Delphinium jormosum .75 

 Lythrum Salicaria, 



var. roseum superbum .75 

 A stilbe Japonica, 



(S. Japonica) .75 



Coreopsis lanceolata .45 

 Wistaria Chinensis 1.00 

 Rosa 111 nit i flora , 



var. Crimson 



Rambler 4.00 



Total Cost, Eighty plants S25.00 



One Dorothy Perkins rose 



1 2. Eight grape vines 



13. Seven currants 



14. Three gooseberries 



15. Six rhubarb 



16. One Hall's magnolia 



17. One pearl bush 



18. One winged euonymous 

 10. Two rose of Sharon 

 20. Four pompon chrysanthemum 



Rosa multiflora, 





var. Dorothy 





Perkins 



.40 



Vilis Labrusca 



4.00 



Ribes rubrum 



x.40 



Ribes oxyacan- 





thoides 



1.40 



Rheum Rhapont- 





icum 



1. so 



Magnolia slellata 



3-oo 



Exochorda gran- 





difiora 



-50 



F.uonymus alatus 



1.20 



Hibiscus Svriacus 



1.50 



Chrysanthemum 





Indicum 



.So 



1. One Norway maple (12 to 14 ft.) Acer platanoides 



Fourteen arborvita? 



3. Seven rhododendron 



4. Seven bright -flowered azalea 



5. One yew 



6. One white Chinese wistaria 



7. One Chinese wistaria 



8. One trumpet honeysuckle 



S2.50 

 14.00 



Thuya occidentalis 



Rhododendron Cat 



azvbiense, var. 8.75 

 Azalea Indica, var. 

 amcena 8.75 



Taxus baccata 2.50 



Wistaria Ch in en- 

 sis, var. albiflora .50 



Wistaria Chinensis .50 



Lonicera sempcr- 

 virens, var. fuch- 

 siodes (L.fuchsiodes) .50 



Total Cost, Fifty-six plants S50.00 



The regulation city lot of only 25 x 109 feet is by no means an impossible problem. The labor for planting 

 the above should not exceed $1.00 for the smallest lot of plants, and for the others, $1.50. $3.00 and $5.00 



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Q. 



Seven grape vines 



Vitis Labrusca 



3-5° 



0. 



Three hybrid deutzia 



Deutzia Lemoinei 



1.50 



I. 



Three rose of Sharon 



Hibiscus Syriacus 



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2. 



Three Carolina allspice 



Calycanlhus flori- 









dus 



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V 



Three red bud 



Cercis Chinensis 









(C Japonica) 



2.00 



4- 



Three golden bells 



Forsythia suspen- 

 sa, var. Fortunci 









(F. Fortunei) 



1.50 



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One weigela 



Diervilla florida 









(Weigelc- rosea) 



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