. Manual of gardening : a practical guide to the making of home grounds and the growing of flowers, fruits, and vegetables for home use . Gardening. 30 MANUAL OF GARDENING unsatisfactory. It generally amounts to this, that we have four months of sparse and downcast vegetation, one month of Ump and frost-bitten plants, and seven months of bare earth (Fig. 19). I am not now opposing the carpet-beds which professional gar- deners make in parks and other museums. I like museums, and some of the carpet-beds and set pieces are "fearfully and wonderfully made" (see Fig. 20). I am directing
. Manual of gardening : a practical guide to the making of home grounds and the growing of flowers, fruits, and vegetables for home use . Gardening. 30 MANUAL OF GARDENING unsatisfactory. It generally amounts to this, that we have four months of sparse and downcast vegetation, one month of Ump and frost-bitten plants, and seven months of bare earth (Fig. 19). I am not now opposing the carpet-beds which professional gar- deners make in parks and other museums. I like museums, and some of the carpet-beds and set pieces are "fearfully and wonderfully made" (see Fig. 20). I am directing my remarks. 20. Worth paying admittance price to see ! to those humble home-made flower-beds that are so common in lawns of country and city homes alike. These beds are cut from the good fresh turf, often in the most fantastic designs, and are filled with such plants as the women of the place may be able to carry over in cellars or in the window. The plants them- selves may look very well in pots, but when they are turned out of doors, they have a sorry time for a month adapting themselves to the sun and winds, and it is generally well on towards midsummer before they begin to cover the earth. During all these weeks they have demanded more time and. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954. New York : Macmillan Co.
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