HOUSE AND GARDEN 
408 
December, 1911 
Y OUR BATHROOM equipment should be selected 
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Seat 20 in. x 20 in. 
Back 34 in. 
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Niagara grapes. A nice strawberry bed 
could be planted in the southwest corner 
of the garden. This scheme gives you 
quite a variety of fruit and a quantity 
that will supply a large family table 
throughout the entire year. The walks 
are three feet wide and constructed of 
coal cinders laid to a depth of three 
inches. On either side the walks are bor¬ 
dered with a strip of sod a foot wide, 
which serves to keep your walks well 
lined up. Here you may grow all manner 
of vegetables to suit your taste. Do not, 
however, grow the same vegetables on 
the same plot for more than two succes¬ 
sive years, change them about. A good 
deal of green stuff from the garden can 
be thrown into the hen park for the hens, 
for this will help them to stand confine¬ 
ment much better. It is never practical 
to let your hens run at large, for they will 
destroy your garden and pester your 
neighbors. 
Flowers can best be handled in gardens 
by themselves. The flower garden (F. G.) 
is composed of three beds. The center 
bed is eight feet by fifteen feet, the two 
end beds are eight feet by ten feet. The 
row of cherry trees and a privet hedge 
forms a background and separates the 
flower garden from the vegetable garden. 
A perennial border between the flower 
beds and the hedge runs the entire length 
of the hedge and ends in a bank of high 
growing perennials at the north end of 
the flower garden, which serves also to 
screen the vegetable garden from the 
flower garden. These beds can be filled 
with bulbs in the fall to give you your 
first spring bloom. Subsequently, when 
the bulbs are done blooming the bulbs 
should be removed and the beds filled with 
bedding plants that will bloom all sum¬ 
mer. The perennial border is composed 
of the hardiest perennials, of which we 
might name, Golden Glow, Japan and 
German Iris, Achillea in variety, Colum¬ 
bine, Perennial Asters, Campanula or 
Bellflower, Lily of the Valley, Hardy 
Phlox and there are hundreds of other 
good varieties to select from. 
The drive can be made very cheaply 
and lasting by excavating to a depth of 
nine inches and filling in with six inches 
of coarse coal cinders for the first layer 
and a three inch layer of good gravel for 
the top coat. It is quite essential that you 
give the drive a good crown, as it serves 
for both walk and drive, and it is impor¬ 
tant that the surface water runs off quick¬ 
ly, so that the drive will always be dry 
and hard. 
The lawn plantations will vary, as will 
all other plantations, with the locality. In 
general we may say that all shrubs plant¬ 
ed close to the residence should be of a 
low growing character, so as not to ob¬ 
struct any view from the house. Among 
these can be mentioned Dwarf Barberry, 
Indian Currant, Snowberry, Spiraeas, etc. 
Shrubs in the background of the border 
plantations should he high growing shrubs, 
so they shall serve to screen out any ob¬ 
jectionable features that may be beyond 
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