. The little garden. ILLUSTRATIONS Onb of Several Good Reasons poh the Little Gabden Frontispiece SCBEBNING OUT THE GaRAGE WITH PoPLAHS .... 6 End Planting for Small Place 16 Plan op a Little Garden Near Boston 18 Spirea above Iris 30 A Marble Seat Well Designed AND Well Placed ... 36 Balajstce in the Little Garden 40 A Latticed Boundary Fence 48 Shasta Daisies 56 Tables Color Groupings of Tulips 22 Table of Vines fob Various Purposes 30 Types op Trees, Shrubs, and Perenniaia .... 33 Possible Charming Combinations . * . i. 75 Herbaceous Perennials . ^ , . . * i • e. THE LITTLE GARDEN SITUATION
. The little garden. ILLUSTRATIONS Onb of Several Good Reasons poh the Little Gabden Frontispiece SCBEBNING OUT THE GaRAGE WITH PoPLAHS .... 6 End Planting for Small Place 16 Plan op a Little Garden Near Boston 18 Spirea above Iris 30 A Marble Seat Well Designed AND Well Placed ... 36 Balajstce in the Little Garden 40 A Latticed Boundary Fence 48 Shasta Daisies 56 Tables Color Groupings of Tulips 22 Table of Vines fob Various Purposes 30 Types op Trees, Shrubs, and Perenniaia .... 33 Possible Charming Combinations . * . i. 75 Herbaceous Perennials . ^ , . . * i • e. THE LITTLE GARDEN SITUATION, SOIL, SHRROnNDENGS If I were asked to say what word I thought most vital tosuccess in any garden, and particularly in the little garden, itwould be the word relate. This question of relation is-of necessityfirst. All beauty in design, in garden-planting, rests on suitabil-ity. When an architect and his collaborator, the landscape archi-tect, meet to decide upon the placing of a house on a given site,what is their first consideration? The character and appearanceof the surroundings. This is the large maimer of looking at suchquestions. The practice of this large manner by an individualresults sooner or later in the acquirement of that elusive posses-sion, taste. Taste lies ia the habit of sifting, with the ultimate ar-rival at what is good. And in the little garden, taste is, if possible,more important than in the large. The large garden may occa-sionally contaia certain defects in its recesses, certain misarrange-ments, which, from given points, are unseen
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