. Manual of gardening; a practical guide to the making of home grounds and the growing of flowers, fruits, and vegetables for home use. Gardening. 6G MANUAL OF GARDENING lawn at its farther edge for the purpose of keeping cattle off the place, and thereby bring in the adjacent landscape. Figure 64 suggests how this may be done. The depression near the foot of the lawn, which is really a ditch and scarcely visible from the Mj^^ wmszxv^r; 64. A sunken fence athwart a foreground. upper part of the place because of the slight elevation on its inner rim, answers all the purposes of a fence. Nearty
. Manual of gardening; a practical guide to the making of home grounds and the growing of flowers, fruits, and vegetables for home use. Gardening. 6G MANUAL OF GARDENING lawn at its farther edge for the purpose of keeping cattle off the place, and thereby bring in the adjacent landscape. Figure 64 suggests how this may be done. The depression near the foot of the lawn, which is really a ditch and scarcely visible from the Mj^^ wmszxv^r; 64. A sunken fence athwart a foreground. upper part of the place because of the slight elevation on its inner rim, answers all the purposes of a fence. Nearty all trees are injured if the dirt is filled about the base to the depth of a foot or more. The natural base of the plant should be exposed so far as possible, not only for protec- tion of the tree, but because the base of a tree trunk is one of its most distinctive features. Oaks, maples, and in fact most A good grating about a tree. Protecting a tree in filled land trees will lose their bark near the crown if the dirt is piled against them; and this is especially true if the water tends to settle about the trunks. Figure G5 shows how this difficulty may be obviated. A well is stoned up, allowing a space of a. 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, The Macmillan Company
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