Little gardens; how to beautify city yards and small country spaces . In California they have jimsons so big thatyou can play under them, but I speak now of ourhumble Eastern variety, which Is usually of adusty, weed-like aspect, rooted among ash-dumps,crockery and old cans, and lapsing Into a squalorof age at the first nip of the frost. I hoed thesoil about It, watered it, picked off the beetlesand grubs, and when the flowers came, gatheredthem every evening, at least, all but enough toattract the night-moth, with Its astonishing pro-boscis. The determination of that plant to haveseed caused
Little gardens; how to beautify city yards and small country spaces . In California they have jimsons so big thatyou can play under them, but I speak now of ourhumble Eastern variety, which Is usually of adusty, weed-like aspect, rooted among ash-dumps,crockery and old cans, and lapsing Into a squalorof age at the first nip of the frost. I hoed thesoil about It, watered it, picked off the beetlesand grubs, and when the flowers came, gatheredthem every evening, at least, all but enough toattract the night-moth, with Its astonishing pro-boscis. The determination of that plant to haveseed caused It to put forth blossoms in a multi-tude, and it swelled almost to the dimension of 52 THE CITY YARD a tree. It was ten or a dozen feet wide and aboutnine feet high. It screened a ragged and un-pleasant view behind us, and was really as hand-some a property as many an owner of a privatepark could desire. There is a hint for any onewho cares to act on it. Adjoining our yard was its twin, but here iswhat the owner did, and I instance this merelythat you may avoid it:. Fig. 7.—I, Trellis reared against the house; 2, summer-house; 3, arbor; 4, plants; 5, flower-bed. Here was architecting on an 18 X 50 witha vengeance. The summer-house and arbor wereS3 LITTLE GARDENS so heavily blanketed with vines that they weredark, damp and soon grew rickety, while theshadows they cast hindered or killed vegetationaround them, and the spaces between them andthe fence were such wee, pinched areas that theycould not be farmed at a profit. The coveringof this reservation with planks and lath exem-plifies a common tendency of Americans to dotoo much of everything. They overeat, over-dress, overgain, overlegislate, they cram toomuch into their houses, and up to a certain timeof life try to cram too much into their Japanese have something to tell us in respectof art and life. They simplify them. The richman in Japan does not show everjthing he puts out certain bronzes, vases, wall h
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