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THE GARDEN 
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if the space is very small, there can be a great 
variety of ways in which to lay it out. Then 
again it is important to arrange to have the 
garden looking brightest when it can be en¬ 
joyed. Many children live all the year round 
in the country, so their gardens must have 
flowers in them, if possible, all months of the 
year. Other children are in a town in the 
spring or early summer, and want flowers there¬ 
fore in the late summer and autumn ; others 
again go to a town for the winter, so summer 
flowers are all they need, and it would be only 
a sad disappointment to plant early spring bulbs 
that they would never see in bloom. 
Then some children will find their gardens 
ready made—perhaps a corner in the kitchen 
garden, or the end of a long border may be 
given up to them, where the soil is already 
prepared and dug; while others may only have 
a bit of waste ground or a corner in the 
shrubbery, and will have to do all the prepara¬ 
tion of the ground themselves. That may be 
the hardest work, but it gives perhaps the 
greatest satisfaction in the end. All these 
possibilities must be looked at in turn, and a 
little advice be given about each of them. 
First consider a garden that is part of a 
border in the kitchen or flower garden. There 
may be a wall at the back, and if so it must 
