ALL KINDS OF GARDENS 



not mastered the situation by finding the key, some way, 

 somehow. 



Nothing will grow there but the things that like 

 it — that is the key; and these will flourish mightily — 

 that is the reward, ivlake walks through such a garden 

 of large, flat stepping-stones, laid on a bed of small 

 stones, if they seem likely to sink below the requisite 

 level without some support. 



The deserts of our great southwest furnish a 

 species of plants which blossom like the rose, and which, 

 having learned through ages of life there to love the 

 hot sun and the hot dry sand, afford garden material 

 for hopelessly sandy regions. These are the cacti — 

 strange, ungracious in form, looking often more like 

 some queer animals than like plants, yet bearing flowers 

 of wonderful beauty and often of enormous size. Com- 

 monly they are grown only as house-plants, but there 

 are several hardy kinds which will endure northern 

 winters, even though they are heat lovers. An outdoor 

 collection of these, well arranged, will furnish an inter- 

 esting and beautiful garden on practically clear sand. 



The steep barren hillsides where plants wash out 

 as fast as they are planted, may be conquered by break- 

 ing them into terraces, held either by walls or by some 

 strong, fibrous-rooted and root- spreading plant which, 

 carpeting their slope, holds the earth firmly in spite of 

 the wash of rains. 



The ordinary hardy garden, on ordinary garden 

 soil, presents no special problem to the beginner — but 

 it does try his patience most woefully. Waiting for 



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