Little gardens; how to beautify city yards and small country spaces . the freedom of thefirst ten feet, and I mustremind you that it is not necessary to plantclothes-poles for her. Nowadays it is usual toextend two beams across the yard, running froman upright on one fence to the other. Theclothes-lines are strung from beam to beam,fastened to hooks, and a stout tug will haul theline so taut that poles will not be needed to sup-port it. This is an advantage, for poles mayfall and smash your ageratum or your salpiglossis—the same being no part of the human Anns fingers are usually b
Little gardens; how to beautify city yards and small country spaces . the freedom of thefirst ten feet, and I mustremind you that it is not necessary to plantclothes-poles for her. Nowadays it is usual toextend two beams across the yard, running froman upright on one fence to the other. Theclothes-lines are strung from beam to beam,fastened to hooks, and a stout tug will haul theline so taut that poles will not be needed to sup-port it. This is an advantage, for poles mayfall and smash your ageratum or your salpiglossis—the same being no part of the human Anns fingers are usually buttered whenshe clutches any domestic materials that you es-pecially wish she hadnt. A modification of this plan is shown inFig. lo. As for the walk, it ought to be inches is enough. You will doubtless60 THE CITY YARD make it of gravel, if you have the say so, and itcertainly agrees best with the ground, so far asappearances go. Stone and brick, though ugly,have their advantages: weeds and grass do notgrow on them, it costs no trouble to keep them. Fig. io.—i. Flower-beds; 2, trees. clean, they are not kicked up and put into dis-array by heavy or shuffling feet, and they are acheck against weeds in the borders. It is noteasy to repress the grass when it has no greaterobstacle than gravel, which will be moistened inthe showerings, but it stops when it touches as-phalt or flagstones. And if you would avoid61 LITTLE GARDENS trouble on this score, let your garden-beds comeplumb to the edge of the walk, instead of leav-ing the usual strip of grass between them. Thegrass will never leave off trying to possess itselfof the whole premises, and the fight against it,when it determines to go where it does not be-long, will be unremitting. There is one variety,a coarse and riotous sort, known as witch-grass,that is downright uncanny in its sneaking and itsstrenuousness. You are transplanting a mignon-ette, perhaps, out of a crowded spot into a roomyone, and have thrust
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