The Kind of Garden 3 
hardship and privation and ever amount 
to anything afterward. 
The design to be employed for a garden 
planned for only one season is not so vital 
as the design which permanent planting de- 
mands; nevertheless, it should be as good 
as it can be, under the limitations which 
the character of the soil may impose, or 
which are imposed by unalterable condi- 
tions. I speak of the soil conditions sep- 
arately, for ordinary soil is alterable, up 
to a certain point, even within the limits 
of a single summer ; but there are condi- 
tions which may not be changed within so 
short a space of time — conditions of shade 
sometimes, or moisture, or dryness — and 
there are some imposed by absolutely 
unalterable physical peculiarities. The 
garden design, as well as the selection of 
the plants, must, therefore, conform to 
these, for even annuals have their prefer- 
ences, which are worth considering and 
conceding. 
There are two reasons for wanting a 
garden “ this year.” One is the very 
natural wish not to have even a single 
barren summer around even the newest 
dooryard; the other is what we may call 
