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THE GARDEN 
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part could be made flat by digging up some of 
the earth and heaping it at one end, so as to 
form a miniature terrace. Even if it took 
children a whole summer to accomplish so 
great a task, the result would well repay all 
trouble. 
The picture shows what a garden of this 
kind might look like when finished. The 
terrace is only a foot to 18 inches high, the 
bed about 2 feet 6 inches by 5 feet long. A 
hedge round it would be a great improvement, 
or any sort of railing or wire netting could be 
planted with ivy or some other creeper to cover 
it thickly like the one in the picture, which 
would have just the same effect as a real hedge. 
When it is all tidy and full of flowers, the effect is 
very lovely. Things have to be kept small and 
neat, and the whole can, even by a small child, 
be made to look like a miniature of some large 
formal garden. But its drawbacks are that 
plants very quickly get too large for the little 
beds, the box takes so much nourishment from 
the small patches it encloses that frequent 
renewing of the soil is necessary, and the box 
requires a great deal of attention to keep it 
thick and low, so that there are no ugly gaps 
and it is not so high as to hide the flowers. 
The paths also take a lot of weeding; they 
are, however, nice and dry to work from in 
