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Circular Plant Beds 
The circular plant bed shown is G ft. 
in diameter, and designed to hold 19 
plants without a border. A border would 
need more space, according to the kinds 
of plants used in bed and border, but 
714 to 8 ft. in all ought to be about right 
for Cannas in the bed and Coleus for the 
border. The outer row is G ft. in diam¬ 
eter and has 12 plants 18 in. apart. The 
next row r is 3 ft. in diameter and has six 
plants 18 in. apart and one plant in the 
center 18 in. from all its neighbors. 
To lay out a bed like this take a 
stout cord 3 ft. long with a peg at both 
ends. Push down one peg at the center 
C. and then with an 18-in. stick start at 
A and go around the circle, driving pegs 
where the end of the string and end of 
A 
the 18-in. stick come together, but make 
sure that you come out even with all pegs 
simced an equal distance apart. For the 
next row. start at B, 18 in. from the cen¬ 
ter, and equidistant from A and D. and 
with the cord shortened to 18 in., and 
proceed as before. This way gives a 
better division of the space than if A, 
B. C are all in straight line. Instead of 
using line and stick, the soil may be 
smoothed down and a divider used made 
of three strips of lath, like a large pair of 
compasses or dividers. Care must be used 
either w r ay, so that the spaces are all 
equal between the pegs. When the plants 
are set. dig carefully around each peg 
and then scoop out the hole deep enough: 
now set the plant in the center of the 
hole and so on till done. Set. the center 
plant first, and work outwards. The soil 
Wooden Dividers for Spacing Plants 
should be uniform and the plants of equal 
size and thrift. All one kind may be 
used, or a different kind for each row, 
with the taller kinds in the center and 
inside row. Other plants than Cannas 
and Coleus may be used, varying the dis¬ 
tances to suit the kind and habit of 
growth. Annual flow : ers are fine, and the 
combinations are almost without limit. 
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Balsam Hedge Dying Out 
We have a hedge of balsam trees about 
25 years old. and are very much worried 
for fear we might lose them. They are 
thinning out at the top and dying at the 
bottom. Can you tell us how to save 
them? Of course, they have never been 
cultivated, and' w r e wondered if that is 
u hat we need to do. H. T. C. 
Cowdesville, N. Y. 
The balsam or fir is less tolerant of 
shade than spruce, and it is a common 
thing in the woods to find small trees 
dead from lack of light. For the same 
reason the lower limbs die out more than 
the spruce, and we find this a common 
occurrence in hedges where the shade 
becomes dense. Whole sections of hedges 
will die out where a tree close by throws 
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