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for growing- small table vegetables, like lettuce, radishes, 

 onions, and sweet herbs; and separating this from the 

 rose and cut-dower garden is the sweet-pea trellis. 



We now come to the formal 

 THE garden, which consists of seven 



FORMAL GARDEN beds. The one near the drive- 

 way is filled with tall perennials. 

 This separates the roses and other cut-fiowers from the 

 rest of the yard, and makes the formal part a separate 

 garden unit. On examination it is found to be a paral- 

 lelogram 26 by 52 feet, divided by a system of grass walks 

 into six well-proportioned flower-beds, the two center beds 

 forming a true circle. The four corner beds are recti- 

 linear with the exception of the sides next to the circle, 

 which follow the same curve. The two center beds are 

 filled with tall-growing Hybrid Perpetual Roses and 

 Gladiolus bulbs interspersed between to add color during 

 the midsummer season, and the four corner beds contain 

 low bedding-roses that bloom all summer, like the Hybrid 

 Teas, Hybrid Noisettes, and Dwarf Polyanthas, the best 

 varieties of the latter being the Baby Ramblers. This is 

 the only formal effect on the entire premises, and is pleas- 

 ing from the fact that it possesses much beauty of its 

 own and offers a change of scenery from the natural 

 effects which predominate all over the j^ard. 



Of late years it has become 

 a custom to do away w-ith the 

 iron fences that were so com- 

 mon a generation ago and either 

 leave the front of the yard open altogether or enclose it 

 with a clipped hedge as is the common practice in Eng- 

 land. In the present instance a hedge is in good taste 

 because the property is not large and all of it is needed 

 for the use of the family. Besides, the house being con- 

 structed on straight lines, a formal straight hedge is in 

 l)erfect harmony with it. 



AVe will now plant some trees on 

 the street along the sidewalk. They will 

 add variety to the sk3'-line and also add 

 much to the comfort of pedestrians. On 

 ordinary streets \\\t\\ a narrow^ parkway, as in the present instance, 

 it is evident they must be planted in straight lines, and it is also 

 best that they be uniform in kind and size. On very wide avenues 

 with parklike effects trees may be planted irregularly and in 

 colonies. 



We have completed the building of a landscape and applied 

 all the basic principles. The transformation from the new yard 



HEDGES 



PLANT TREES 



ON THE STREET 



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to the completed picture has been easy and natural. The change 

 has taken place before our eyes, and we end up with a garden that 

 will be a source of mental and spiritual profit to its owner to the 

 end of his terrestrial days. 



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We want to he your horticultural adviser in the same sense that you 

 have a legal adviser, a medical adviser and, perhaps, a spiritual adviser. 

 If the little god within you is alive and awake you need us far more than 

 you do a spiritual adviser. Read the gospel of the garden and the frightful 

 word that rhymes with "spell" will never send its shuddering thrill to the 

 nerve centers of vour heart. 



