An old-fashioned vegetable garden made beautiful by trees. 
There are only two of them in the vegetable patch proper—not enough to give 
too much shade 
Making the Vegetable Garden Beautiful 
THE PASSING OF THE BELIEF THAT UTILITY AND BEAUTY ARE INCOMPATIBLE IN THE 
VEGETABLE GARDEN—WAYS AND MEANS FOR ACCOMPLISHING THEIR HARMONIOUS UNION 
by Grace Tabor 
Photographs by Nathan R. Graves and others. 
[The eleventh of a series of articles by Miss Tabor on the subject of landscape gardening as applied to the American home of moderate size. Pre¬ 
ceding articles in the series have appeared under the titles: “Utilizing Natural Features in Garden Making” (Oct., 1909); “Getting Into a Place” 
(Nov.); “Formal or Informal Gardens” (Dec.); “Screening, Revealing and Emphasizing Objects or Views” (Jan., 1910); “Boundary Lines and Boun¬ 
dary Plantings” (Feb.); “Planting Tres for Air, Light and Shade” (Mar.); “Planting Shrubs for Mass Effects” (Apr.); “The Part Flowers Play in 
Garden and Landscape” (May); “Blending Architecture and Nature by Planting” (July); and “The Right Use of Evergreens” (Aug.). Questions 
relating to further details and planting information will be gladly answered. 
T HE vegetable garden is usually treated very badly, and our 
attitude toward it is unfortunate both for ourselves and 
for it. There is positively no reason for hiding it in out-of-the- 
way corners or squeezing it into grudgingly yielded spaces, if 
really worthy care and thought are given it, beginning with a 
plan just as painstakingly worked out as a flower garden or 
landscape would have. 
Vegetable gardens are not usually attractive from an esthetic 
point of view, to be sure—but small wonder when we consider 
how shabbily these most useful of all gardens have been dealt 
with for time out of mind. They have been given no chance to 
be beautiful because everyone has somehow been convinced that 
beauty and utility were hopelessly incompatible—in gardening 
—Editor.] 
anyway. We are learning daily more and more, however, about 
beauty and utility being sister and brother—some are even put¬ 
ting forth the claim that they are twins—and this is just as true 
outdoors as it is in, with plants and fruits as with furniture and 
fittings. 
In the old, old days, in the old world, when gardening was 
carried on behind protective walls of massive stone, and only 
the monastery gardens escaped pillage and destruction under the 
incessant warfare of the times, flower gardens, as such, were 
unknown. Gardens were a vital necessity and not an ornamental 
luxury in that stern age, and were stocked with those plants 
which furnished either food or medicine. But many of the lat¬ 
ter were the flowering plants which are the isolated and pam- 
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