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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
September, 1910 
balked by it. For 
want of the best so¬ 
lution though, the 
beauty of most Rose 
gardens is very seri¬ 
ously impaired, for 
even with Roses 
blooming all around, 
the eye instinctively 
longs for something 
more refreshing and 
pleasing than bare 
earth beneath them. 
The one satisfac¬ 
tory solution is sunk¬ 
en beds with grass 
walks between them; 
and this is likewise 
the vegetable garden's 
redemption — this and 
that beautiful order 
which is the first law of all things. A vegetable garden, to de¬ 
velop the highest beauty, must be perfect in its formality and 
balanced symmetry. 
Beds lowered six inches below the general level, with turf 
walks four feet wide, outlined with low flower borders for main 
divisions and a width of a foot less, similarly edged or not, for 
subdivisions, will produce an effect that no one who has not tried 
it, nor seen it tried, can conceive possible with such respected 
but scorned plants as beets, lettuce, radishes, salsify and the like. 
Plan such a garden on paper as carefully as any landscape, 
centering it on some division of the house if possible. If this is 
not practical let a 
walk leading to it be 
its axis, and plan 
from this. Let its 
form be whatever the 
space permits; it can¬ 
not matter whether it 
is a square or a rec¬ 
tangle if it is planned 
on an axis running 
either way-—and per¬ 
fect orderliness and 
immaculate neatness 
perpetually thereafter 
as it grows. 
Do not over-ela¬ 
borate the design nor 
introduce intricate 
forms in the beds— 
this is bad taste, 
whether flowers or 
vegetables are to fill them — and arrange so that low-growing 
vegetables shall occupy the central positions with the taller kinds 
at or near the garden boundaries. 
The plan given is for an area of 50 x 100 feet. The same 
amount of care that would keep a lawn this size with flowers and 
shrubbery planted on it in perfect order will take care of such a 
garden as this shows. The vegetables for it would of course be 
selected according to the gardener’s taste, and from it all that 
from four to six people could possibly eat, with the exception of 
potatoes, would be harvested. 
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A suggestion for a vegetable garden that may be made almost as attractive as a 
flower garden. This 50x 100 foot plot will produce practically all the vegetables 
five people can eat in a year. The grass walks are an important feature 
We are learning daily more and more about beauty and utility being sister and brother—even twins, and this is as true in the vegetable 
garden with plants and fruits as it is in the living-room with furniture and' fittings 
