May, 1915 
THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
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strength as for apples or grapes. Spray 
them the first time early in the spring, right 
after the lea-ves have come out, and again 
after the blossoms have fallen. Currants 
and gooseberries and the other berries 
should be sprayed in fall, winter or spring 
with the dormant or strong lime-sulphur 
solution. They ought to be sprayed a couple 
of times during the growing season, with 
lime-sulphur and arsenate of lead, same 
strength as for apples and strawberries. 
Make the first application before the blos- 
soms come out, and the second two or 
three or four weeks after the bloom is gone. 
If mildew and blight bother much, use 
the bordeaux mixture instead of the 
lime - sulphur solution, of course with 
lead added. If worms bother them about 
the time the fruit will be ripe, so that 
lead should not be used, dust with hellebore 
powder. 
Practical Plans for the Home Grounds 
III. The Square Corner Lot — By Ruth Dean, Land £ e Y D orr er ’ 
(Editors’ Note — One article in this series of layout plans appears each month , and each one approaches a problem totally different 
from the others. Complete planting plans are not given here , as the object is to discuss the layout in general. Several planting plans 
will be found in the issues for February and April from which the garden maker may adapt details to fit his own case.) 
O N A small corner lot, about 125 x 
no ft. in extent, no very pre- 
tentious garden is possible, nor, 
for that matter, desirable. But 
the house which is often planted thought- 
lessly in the middle of the lot, cutting up the 
ground, so that four useless spaces of ap- 
proximately the same size result, can be so 
placed as to make room for a very pleasant 
flower garden. Small as this must neces- 
sarily be, it need not seem cramped. By 
making the paths few and green spaces and 
flower stretches proportionately large, an 
effect of space is gained, which would not 
be the result if many paths cut the garden 
into small sections. 
The house is placed 35 feet from the road, 
with a simple brick path leading to the 
door. A walk from the side street to the 
kitchen entrance leaves an unbroken lawn 
space at the front, and the garage is also 
entered from the side street. High plant- 
ing about the garage mitigates, somewhat, 
the undesirability of its close proximity to 
the flower garden. It is a bit difficult to 
connect the garden with such a house as 
this, for no window or door offers itself as 
a convenient and fitting point from which 
to run an axis. The garden must be laid 
out independently, and yet be connected 
in some way with the house. The piazza 
as a starting point for the main garden path 
is about the only solution for this problem. 
On centre with the piazza, at the end of a 
flower bordered stretch of turf, is a good 
sun dial or garden figure. If statuary be 
used it must be chosen with discrimination, 
for the garden is small and demands a 
figure in scale. The dial or figure stands 
on a circular base, made of used brick, or 
“seconds,” which contribute a pleasant 
air of age to the new-made garden, laid so 
as to radiate from the centre. Back of 
this, a seat offers a pleasant spot from which 
to enjoy the garden. Surrounding this 
little out-door room is a clipped privet 
hedge, the corners of which are two or three 
inches higher than the main hedge, squared, 
and topped by a round finial of privet. 
Within this main hedge, the flower beds 
are surrounded by a small low-growing 
hedge of box, or six-inch barberry planted 
very close, and clipped. A white-painted 
gate in the hedge leads from the little, cir- 
cular rose garden, to the drying green and 
the kitchen wing of the house. 
Back of the privet boundary, tall-growing 
shrubs form a screen to bestow desirable 
privacy upon the garden, and two or three 
good timber trees, such as oak, hard maple 
or elm, give it an air of permanence and 
dignity. About the lawn’s edge, an ir- 
regular shrubbery border shuts off the street. 
If the house were colonial, a clipped hedge, 
trimmed round or dome-shaped, at the 
entrances would be in keeping with the 
staid primness of the house, although it 
would not so soon gain privacy, as shrubs 
allowed to grow unhampered. 
The corner lot with streets on two sides is usually best handled by putting the house a little off the center. The piazza 
serves to connect the house and garden. Few walks and broad open areas of green give a sense of space 
