HOUSE AND GARDEN 
February, 1912 
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ging flower-beds, while I sat on the wheel¬ 
barrow and cheered him on. The ground 
at the back of the house is so graded that 
a terrace, not much more than a foot 
high, divides the yard into two separate 
plots of about equal'dimensions. The up¬ 
per of these plots, that is, the one nearest 
the road, has on it four peach trees, which 
are happily placed in such a way as to 
form the four corners of a square. The 
symmetrical placing of these trees sug¬ 
gested to us the idea of making, on this 
little terrace, a garden having a formal 
arrangement of beds. The plan will show 
how we laid them out. It also shows a sun 
dial, which so far exists only in our minds. 
We’re going to have it next year, though, 
and the only reason we didn’t have it last 
summer was that we never thought of it 
until a few weeks ago. 
After the Amateur Gardener’s back had 
recovered a little, he dug three beds on 
the lower plot of ground—a long bed in¬ 
side the line of the hedge, a little three- 
cornei'ed bed where the path divides, and 
a bed extending across the back of the 
house. Then he made a long narrow bed 
on each side of the house, surveyed his 
blistered hands, “laid down the shovel and 
the hoe,” so to speak, and went on strike 
for several days. The skeleton of our 
garden was complete. 
Of course we realized that this first 
year we would have to depend mostly 
upon annuals, for we could not afford to 
make much of an outlay on our garden. 
We decided, however, to beg, borrow or 
steal whatever plants we could. We start¬ 
ed off by stealing. Near us was the ruin 
of an old house which had been burned 
down. In the yard grew innumerable 
plants of the yellow day lily. We acquired 
two wheelbarrow loads of these plants, 
and with them filled the long bed at the 
side of the path. Back of the lilies we 
planted a row of dwarf sunflowers, so that 
there might be some bloom in the bed after 
the lilies were gone. The back bed in our 
little terrace garden we planted in rows, 
using, from front to back, portulaca. 
Drummond phlox, African daisies, annual 
lai'kspur and eaidy cosmos. The side beds 
we planted in four o’clocks, and the two 
fi-ont beds in nasturtiums, with clumps of 
hollyhocks and cornflowers (plants we had 
begged from neighbors) at the end of the 
beds next the entrance to the garden. 
We also begged from a neighbor an old 
tin pan, full of little petunia seedlings 
which he had planted early in the spring. 
That pan measured at the most twelve 
inches in diameter, but was crowded full 
of the tiny plants. We set them out about 
a foot apart in the bed at the back of the 
house. 
“They won’t make much of a showing,” 
said the Amateur Gardener, “but we can’t 
afford any seed for this bed.” We little 
realized what those petunias were going 
to do! 
Another neighbor presented us with 
some golden glow, and this we put in the 
little triangular bed. The house is set 
quite high on its rough stone foundation. 
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