House and Garden 
quarter circle space between the front 
walk and the street, some fifty feet at 
the base and twenty at its greatest depth, 
which in a way, represents your front 
lawn is the only place left for planting, 
and even it must not be too much 
cluttered up. On your sketch I have 
marked, within this space, beds 2-3-4. 
In number two plant three Forsy^hia 
suspensa (F. Fortunei) an early bloom¬ 
ing, yellow flowered shrub, whose foliage 
is good all the season. In number 
three plant Rosa rugosa, white and red, 
which will bloom all the season, and 
which should be reliably hardy with 
you. Cut it back some each spring 
in order to keep it bushy at the base. 
In bed number three, which is an oval 
twelve by eight, use cannas, geraniums, 
or any bedding plant that pleases you. 
You can also have tulips in it for spring 
bloom. Across the walk, and east of it, 
is a strip of land some ten feet wide, 
running back the full length of the lot 
line. 
I would keep that to grass except 
at a point where the walk forks at the 
northeast corner of the house. Plant 
three Spircea Fan Houttens. If tulips 
are used in bed number three and 
replaced by cannas, you will have 
flowers in your front from early spring 
until frost. In the narrow space be¬ 
tween the walk and the east wall of the 
house you can grass or grow most any 
flowers that suit you. The “sunken 
garden” ten by one hundred feet might 
be made quite attractive, but as it is 
entirely hidden except when standing 
directly over it, and would be somewhat 
expensive to make and maintain, it 
would be best to sod it or sow grass seed 
there. I make that suggestion because 
you do not want anything elaborate. 
In planting the shrubs allow four feet 
between them, except that three feet 
apart will do for the roses. Set three 
stakes in the ground four feet apart. 
Draw a four foot circle around each 
stake, and the outer lines will resemble 
somewhat a clover leaf plant where the 
stakes are. Instead of preparing single 
holes for each shrub make one bed for 
each group, following the outer lines 
of the circles, except that you do not 
draw in so sharply between the shrubs 
as the lines indicate. Make the beds 
two or more feet deep and fill in with 
good soil. “A dollar for the tree and 
two for the hole” is a saying not far 
out of the way. Do not let the edge of 
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