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Plan of a Small Flower Garden 
By Rose Standish Nichols 
The shaded portions represent the paths, the blank portions are 
beds. 
The outside dimensions are 65 feet by 36 feet. 
The Problem is to plant this garden with 10 Perennials, 5 Armuals 
and 2 Biennials so as to get a succession of bloom from the middle of 
May to the middle of September. For more northerly gardens this 
date may be one week later. 
Hedge Plants or a wall may be used, stating variety or type. If 
a waU, or any garden ornaments are added, expense should be taken 
into consideration. 
Planting plaris should be sent to Miss Nichols, 55 Mt. Vernon St., 
Boston, not later than December 5th. The award and winning plan 
will be published in the January Bulletin. 
The Garden Miscellany 
"But where can we get it?" was the constant question during Pro- 
fessor's Wilson's talk on Choice Shrubs before the Easthampton Gar- 
den Club this summer; a talk illustrated by fifty branches of new or 
rare ornamental shrubs from the Arnold Arboretum. The answer was: 
"Since the Plant Exclusion Act you will have to hunt diligently for 
it among our nurseries; maybe Hicks or Andorra or Gillette or Far- 
quhar have it. If not you must get the seed from Europe and be pa- 
tient for years till it matures!" 
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