CHAPTER X 
The Place That is Started 
T HERE are a vast number of suburban 
gardens waiting to be made that cannot 
be taken in hand from the “ground 
up ” — and here we confront special conditions 
and special problems quite unlike those which 
are a part of garden making where it has a 
more ideal start. They are enough like each 
other, however, to make a general survey of 
them possible; and general suggestions con- 
cerning them may be more helpful perhaps than 
an attempt at detailed directions for their treat- 
ment might be. 
The process of building a place up is of 
course the same, whatever the conditions, and 
successive steps follow each other whether the 
start is made in the midst of a half completed 
task or at the beginning of the work. So the 
first thing to be done with the place already 
partially established is to determine just where 
a start may be made — in other words, just 
which steps have been irrevocably taken, and 
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