418 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS June, 1906 
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The grasshoppers will find so much to eat that 
they will not be noticed, and the hot winds 
will find so much fresh and green to blow 
against that they will be checked and cooled. 
Farming is fast being reduced to a science, 
if it may not be said that it has reached that 
stage already. Scientific methods now prevail. 
Deep plowing, soil investigation, seed selec- 
tion, improved machinery, all combine to as- 
sure the farmers at harvest time of a fair re- 
ward for their toil and outlay. There may, 
and probably will be poor crops in certain 
counties, and I will not say that the crops this 
vear will be as large as last year, but I repeat 
we will not have what can be called crop 
failures.” 
THE FLOWER GARDEN IN THE 
TEMPORARY HOME 
By Ida D. Bennett 
O the dweller in the temporary or 
rented home the question of a flower 
garden presents certain phases that 
need not be considered by those owning their 
own homes; the chief of these being such re- 
strictions—as to cutting into a lawn or sod 
and the like, imposed upon them by the land- 
lord, and the question of expense; for, ob- 
viously, there is not the same incentive for 
the outlay of money in the construction of a 
permanent garden, the buying of plants and 
the like, which may be enjoyed but for a year 
or two at the most, that exists where the im- 
provements are permanent and accrue to the 
benefit of the builder and not to that of the 
landlord or some succeeding tenant. This is 
especially true in the case of the planting of 
shrubbery, hardy plants and vines, all of 
which require several years to come to their 
best state and really repay the time, trouble 
and financial outlay involved. 
Fortunately where only the financial side 
of the question presents difficulties, there may 
always be found resources in the many lovely 
bedding and bulbous plants and roots and the 
many annuals of easy culture. 
The landlord is frequently, however, a 
more serious stumbling block, but even he 
may be induced to be accommodating to the 
extent of a border along the rear fences and 
the construction of window boxes and the 
planting of vines around the porches, and let 
me assure you, that a three by four or less, bed 
along the base of a fence surrounding the 
back yard of even a city lot, is by no means to 
be despised, as it affords room for much at- 
tractive and artistic grouping of plants and 
vines, to which the unbroken lawn in the 
center adds a beautiful setting. 
Then the possibilities of a ,well arranged 
and stocked series of window boxes are great 
and they add so materially to the appearance of 
the house, both inside and out, that one may 
almost congratulate themselves on being lim- 
ited to this form of gardening. ‘They have, 
also, the advantage of being the property of 
the builder and may be taken down and re- 
moved to another home when their day in 
their present home is ended. 
It is well, if one would get the greatest 
good from the boxes, that they should be con- 
structed in the fall, planted with early spring 
flowering bulbs, such as the crocus, hyacinth, 
tulip and the like and placed in cold storage 
until March, when they may be put in posi- 
tion and will soon rejoice one with a wealth 
of those most charming blossoms of the 
spring. 
When the tulips and other bulbs have 
faded they may be removed and “heeled in” 
in some secluded spot to ripen, or there may 
be a relay of boxes to bring forward, and the 
