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THE HOME GARDEN\ 
court ” forms an ornamental introduction to some cozy box 
of a house that has at least the outside air of being inhab¬ 
ited by people of taste. 
A suggestion has been made (but not, we believe, ever 
carried out) that in a row of houses the proprietor of each 
little court-yard should give the whole of his mind (and 
space) to the cultivation of some particular flower or plant, 
and with lilies in one inclosure, roses in another, verbenas 
in a third, gladioli in a fourth, and so on through the list. 
The effect would be that of different flower beds in a 
large garden, and less patchworky than a variety in a 
small space. Flowers could be exchanged, and bouquets for 
the house would thus be more satisfactory and in greater 
profusion. 
With a row of houses thirty feet front and standing 
thirty feet back from the street, the space afforded would 
be ample for the exercise of much floricultural taste ; and 
wire fences between the inclosures, as also those at the 
front, could be entirely covered with vines and made beau¬ 
tiful with leaves and buds and blossoms. 
In a plan arranged for these larger houses, the paths 
slant, and the patterns in the different fronts join like the 
breadths of a carpet. The center piece in one should be 
oval, in another round, a third star-shaped, a fourth octa¬ 
gonal, a fifth heart-shaped, etc. Small deciduous trees, like 
the cliionantlius , or fringe-tree, the cornus Florida , Halesia , 
or silver bell, cranberry-tree, snowball, magnolia, and others 
would be desirable in a space of this size. 
The same idea could be carried out advantageously in 
rows of smaller houses, if care were used in the selection of 
plants suitable for a small space. Such beds of pansies, 
for instance, as might flourish in shaded city door yards ! 
Such fuchsias and forget-me-nots and violets and lilies as 
might take the place of the rank grass or hopeless-looking 
pavement that usually stretches from door to door ! The 
