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definite plan. Set out your 

 trees, shrubs and Hardy 

 Perennials, yes, and even 

 Annuals, on paper at first; 

 then vou can move them 

 about until they "look right," 

 without loss of money and 

 disastrous results. 



One of the things that is 

 hardest for the amateur gar- 

 dener to realize is that the 

 effect of profusion, of quan- 

 tity, depends more upon hon; 

 the plants are used than 

 upon the number used. So 

 arrange your plants that as 

 many of them as possible can 

 be seen from any one point; 

 this you can accomplish only 

 by keeping an open center, a 

 further advantage of which 

 is, that a good, well-kept 

 lawn is one of the most 

 beautiful features which any 

 place can have. Instead of 

 having your garden term- 

 inate with a high board 

 fence or an iron prison- 

 grating, so plan it by the use 

 of a few tall growing things, a hedge or even a 

 der of such Annuals as Sunflowers and Ricinus 



Bean) that there is left a 

 suggestion and a possibility 

 at least of "something be- 

 yond." Not only plant the 

 tallest things at the back, but 

 in front of these put lower 

 things and in front of these 

 again still lower ones until 

 you get down as near the 

 ground level as possible. 

 This not only keeps all the 

 plants in sight and prevents 

 their hiding one another, but 

 in this way even a very nar- 

 row border may be given an 

 appearance of depth, that is 

 truly wonderful. 



These several points may 

 be emphasized with effect 

 in planning the small gar- 

 den for the small house. 



MATERIALS FOR A SMALL 

 GARDEN 



Although there is room 

 here for not even a very 

 brief description of the vari- 

 ous things available to the 

 gardener seeking to make 

 the most out of his small 



Here one sees how delightful a little garden may be made, an adorn- 

 ment to any home 



narrow bor- area of space, nevertheless the following suggestions may 

 (Castor Oil be useful. As a general thing it will be better to try to 



Clumps of flowers massed above are excellent substitutes for small gardens, when otherwise one would have no garden at all 



