Four Plans for a 150x150 Ft. Lot— By f. c. Leibie, ss 



ELEVENTH AND LAST ARTICLE IN THE SERIES ON THE "CHEAPEST GARDENS FOR THE SMALLEST 

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



[Editor's Note. — The -first article in this series, which gave ten complete planting plans for city lots 25 x 100 ft. and 50* 100 ft., appeared in The Garden 

 Magazine for February, 1907. Plans for a lot 25x30 ft. appeared in May, 1907; 50^100 ft. in July, 1907; 75x100 ft. in September, 1907; 100 x 100 ft in 

 November, 1907; 50x125/*. in February, 1908; 75x125/*. in May, 1908; 50x150/*. in July, 1908; 75x150/*. in November, 1908; 100x150/*. in February 

 1909. These plans are designed with a view to helping the suburbanite who wishes to get the best and quickest results definite in plants for the money expended. 

 They are not to be regarded as construction plans for the development of a piece of property. 



1, Six European linden (Tilia Europcra); 2, two American elm (Ulmus Americana); 

 3, two deutzia (Deulzia Lemoinei); 4, ten blue spirea (Caryopteris maslacanthus); 5, twelve 

 Japanese barberry (Berberis Thunbergii); 6, six Water's spirea (Spiraa Brumalda, var. A. 

 Waterer); 7, fourteen coral berry (Symphoricarpos racemosus). 



The matter of $25 is a totally inadequate expenditure for a 

 plot of this size 



1, Six American ash {Fraxinus Americana); 2, two American elm (Ulmus Americana); 

 3, eighty Japanese barberry (Berberis Thunbergii); 4, ten hardy hydrangea (Hydrangea 

 paniculala, var. grandiflora); 5, two Japanese holly (Ilex crenata); 6, sixteen leucothoe (Leu- 

 cothoe Catesbai) ; 7 , two bridal wreath (Spiraa prunijolia) ; 8 , ten Regel's privet (Liguslrum Ibota, 

 var. Regelianum); 9, ten golden bell (Forsylhia suspensa); io, ten weigela (DiervUla florida). 



Privacy can be secured for as little as $50 



TPHE ideal lot for a suburban home in 

 ■*■ which not more than six to ten thou- 

 sand dollars can be invested is about 150 

 feet square. This gives room enough for 

 a vegetable garden that will supply the 

 family's wants the year round. It is also 

 large enough for a stable or garage, in which 

 case a part of the garden would have to be 

 sacrificed. This is the largest-sized lot for 

 which I have made plans in this series of 

 articles, but it could be taken care of by 

 the family, provided two members are willing 

 to devote an average of one hour a day to 

 the care of it. Otherwise, it would be 

 necessary to spend from twenty-five to one 

 hundred dollars a year for outside help in 

 spring, or through the year. 



I. THE CHEAPEST SOLUTION, $25 



The first plan can hardly be called a solu- 

 tion, because it provides only for the street 

 trees, the trees that stand nearest the house, 

 and the shrubbery surrounding the house, 

 leaving the rest of the lot bare. Bui people 

 never realize that gardening is an expensive 

 business, and the right way to make the 



house attractive and still keep within one's 

 income is to reserve 5 per cent, of the total 

 amount to be spent on house and lot for the 

 grading and decoration of the grounds. 



11. A "privacy" solution for $50 



It is impossible to have an attractive front 

 yard with flowers in it if dogs and children 

 are allowed to run across it, and the only 

 way to keep them out is to have a fence, or 

 hedge, with a gate in it. This idea pre- 

 vails everywhere in England and on the 

 Continent, and it is possible that we may 

 come to it in America. 



The only merit of plan No. 2 is that it 

 shows the best method of getting privacy, 

 which is hedging the front of the yard with 

 Japanese barberry. While this costs more 

 than privet, it is cheaper to maintain be- 

 cause there is no expense for trimming, 

 while privet has to be trimmed three times 

 a year. Moreover the Japanese barberry 

 always has a perfect base, while privet, as 

 commonly planted, usually allows animals 

 to get under or through the hedge. 



We are living in the midst of a pergola 

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craze. A pergola or arbor is a good thing 

 because it furnishes a pleasant, shaded walk, 

 but it ought to lead from somewhere to 

 somewhere, and it would be better in this 

 case to have it lead from the house to the 

 garden, with a summer-house at the end 

 of the walk. 



Thousands of places in this country cost- 

 ing ten thousand dollars or more are about 

 as poorly furnished as this. If ten thousand 

 dollars is to be spent on a property, five 

 hundred dollars should be spent on out- 

 door features. Plan No. 2 shows how 

 little fifty dollars will accomplish, as it does 

 not include the cost of the pergola. 



III. A BOX-EDGED GARDEN FOR $75 



Plan No. 3 shows the manner in which 

 a place of this size ought to be furnished — 

 namely, with an irregular border of shrub- 

 bery extending along both sides of the lot, 

 across the back, so as to form a screen for 

 the kitchen garden, and everywhere massed 

 at corners. 



But it is impossible for seventy-five 

 dollars to plant as perfect a shrubbery as 



