Little gardens; how to beautify city yards and small country spaces . u are so unfortunate as not merelyto be short of water, in which case an aquaticgarden is hopeless, but of soil. Your yard may beof sand, or builders rubbish, in which not evenpurslain will grow. Well, luckier men have hadto contend with harder problems. The mansionson Nob Hill, in San Francisco, are builded onsand that is little more fertile than a plate, orstove-lid, yet by sodding, fertilizing and water-ing it has been surfaced and is as green as theparks of Eastern cities. This takes time andsome money, and circumstances
Little gardens; how to beautify city yards and small country spaces . u are so unfortunate as not merelyto be short of water, in which case an aquaticgarden is hopeless, but of soil. Your yard may beof sand, or builders rubbish, in which not evenpurslain will grow. Well, luckier men have hadto contend with harder problems. The mansionson Nob Hill, in San Francisco, are builded onsand that is little more fertile than a plate, orstove-lid, yet by sodding, fertilizing and water-ing it has been surfaced and is as green as theparks of Eastern cities. This takes time andsome money, and circumstances not unconnectedwith the latter commodity may oblige you to cre-ate your garden by degrees. Li the first yearyou may have to consider most of it as walk,raking up the coarser materials and strewinggravel over the paths. Yet, you can doubtlessbuy three or four loads of good loam; you mayeven have it of some lot owner for the asking,76 THE CITY YARD if you will pay the cartage. In that case a spar-ing array of beds may presage a larger one—some such device as this:. fe^^#J:
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