. Manual of gardening; a practical guide to the making of home grounds and the growing of flowers, fruits, and vegetables for home use . the women of the place may be ableto carry over in cellars or in the window. The plants them-selves may look very well in pots, but when they are turnedout of doors, they have a sorry time for a month adaptingthemselves to the sun and winds, and it is generally well ontowards midsummer before they begin to cover the all these weeks they have demanded more time and THE GENERAL PLAN OR THEORY OF THE PLACE 31 labor than would have been needed to car
. Manual of gardening; a practical guide to the making of home grounds and the growing of flowers, fruits, and vegetables for home use . the women of the place may be ableto carry over in cellars or in the window. The plants them-selves may look very well in pots, but when they are turnedout of doors, they have a sorry time for a month adaptingthemselves to the sun and winds, and it is generally well ontowards midsummer before they begin to cover the all these weeks they have demanded more time and THE GENERAL PLAN OR THEORY OF THE PLACE 31 labor than would have been needed to care for a plantation ofmuch greater size and which would have given flowers everyday from the time the birds began to nest in the spring untilthe last robin had flown in November. Flower-borders. We should acquire theflower-border. The borderspoken sets boundsones own. The per-on it. Along theseby the corners ofthe residence or infront of porches —these are places forflowers. Ten flow-ers against habit of speaking of theplanting of which we haveto the place, and makes itson lives inside his place, notborders, against groups, often. An artists flower-border. #r a background are moreeffective than a hundredin the open yard. I have asked a professional artist, Mr. Mathews, to draw methe kind of a flower-bed that he likes. It is shown in Fig. 21. 32 MANUAL OF GARDENING It is a border, — a strip of land two or three feet wide alonga fence. This is the place where pigweeds usually grow. Here
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