. The little garden. beauty, it istrue. But how easily could one substitute for the lilacs whitespruce, with a group, to the right and left, of some sort of cedarof a formal type, and face this curving round of evergreens witha low border of the handsome Cotoneaster honzontalis, lettingthese evergreen subjects take their way to full developmentalone, with no intermixing of deciduous shrubs or trees. Thisplanting is more costly in its beginning, and its main flowersshould be a brilliant effect of color in spring, from crocus andtulip; for herbaceous plants would not do well among theseroots. Bu
. The little garden. beauty, it istrue. But how easily could one substitute for the lilacs whitespruce, with a group, to the right and left, of some sort of cedarof a formal type, and face this curving round of evergreens witha low border of the handsome Cotoneaster honzontalis, lettingthese evergreen subjects take their way to full developmentalone, with no intermixing of deciduous shrubs or trees. Thisplanting is more costly in its beginning, and its main flowersshould be a brilliant effect of color in spring, from crocus andtulip; for herbaceous plants would not do well among theseroots. But a gorgeous picture could in this way be assured; arich green of foliage for the whole year is relieved in autumn bythe gay color of the foreground of cotoneaster. I am told, how-ever, that this cotoneaster is not reliably hardy in the latitudeof Boston, and often loses its leaves in winter in the latitude ofPhiladelphia; therefore, another low-growing shrub must befound for the foregroimd of the grouping c5 THE PLAN 17 The only garden plan published in this book, given for thereason that it is without doubt one of the best arrangements forrestricted areas that one could find, is that of a charming smallplace near Boston. A few pages back I tried to set forth in wordsthe plan of a little garden in which grass, fruit, flowers, andvegetables were provided by spacing them one beyond another,from the rear of the house to the rear of the lot. The garden nowto be considered has a totally different arrangement. The flower-and vegetable-gardens flank the central turf, flowers to the rightand vegetables to the left; and the logic of this is seen as the gen-eral proportion of the property is noticed. The house, L-shaped,with its wing to the south, stands perhaps forty feet from thesidewalk, in ground measuring roughly seventy feet by onehundred and ten. A straight walk leads from sidewalk to entranceporch, and opposite this porch stepping-stones take one to asundial on a circ
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