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labor than would have been needed to care for a plantation of 

 much greater size and which would have given flowers every 

 day from the time the birds began to nest in the spring until 

 the last robin had flown in November. 



Flower-borders. 



We should 

 flower-border, 

 spoken sets bounds 

 one's own. The per- 

 on it. Along these 

 by the corners of 

 the residence or in 

 front of porches — 

 these are places for 

 flowers. Ten flow- 

 ers against 



acquire the 

 The border 



habit of speaking of the 

 planting of which we have 

 to the place, and makes it 

 son lives inside his place, not 

 borders, against groups, often 



An artist's flower- 

 border. 



a background are more 

 effective than a hundred 

 in the open yard. 



I have asked a professional artist, Mr. Mathews, to draw me 

 the kind of a flower-bed that he hkes. It is shown in Fig. 21. 



