. Garden guide; the amateur gardeners' handbook. Profusely illustrated with over 275 teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographs, all made expressly for this standard text book . apersonal knowledge, sympathy and enthusiasm that binds all gardenlovers together into one great family. In the present edition the changes, aside from minor improve-ments in arrangement, type styles, etc., designed to make the bookmore convenient and pleasing to the eye, have been mainly additionsof new and valuable features. We call attention particularly to thechapter on Common Diseases of Garden Plants
. Garden guide; the amateur gardeners' handbook. Profusely illustrated with over 275 teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographs, all made expressly for this standard text book . apersonal knowledge, sympathy and enthusiasm that binds all gardenlovers together into one great family. In the present edition the changes, aside from minor improve-ments in arrangement, type styles, etc., designed to make the bookmore convenient and pleasing to the eye, have been mainly additionsof new and valuable features. We call attention particularly to thechapter on Common Diseases of Garden Plants and Their Control,compiled by two representative plant pathologists of the country,men who stand with the highest. Among other new features coveredmay be mentioned the Canning of Fruits and Vegetables, Trans-planting, The Vegetable Garden in Winter, Lawn and Garden Weeds,Facts about Frost, Bungalow or Mid-Summer Gardening, AnimalLife in the Garden, Fertilizer Facts, etc. Needless to say, all dataand suggestions have been checked uj), verified and, where necessary,revised in accordance with up-to-date conditions and the most suc-cessful modern principles. ,^j^|^ Lii^iMr GARDEN GUIDE. D. H. HIU LIBRARYNorth Carolina State College CHAPTER 1 Planning the Home Grounds First Considerations in the Composition of a Garden—Drives— Lawns—Locating the Dwelling House—Treatment of the Shrubs, Belts, Borders, Beds—A Plea for Greater Seclusion—Home Planting Plans and Keys thereto IF ones place is but a small area of so many dozen square yards,it is great fun to do ones own planning, and little can go wrong. Should the place be more pretentious, running to one or twoacres, it might be money in ones pocket to consult a landscape gar-dener, or an experienced nurseryman or designer. There are severalexcellent books, too, that can be referred to, and from which valuableinformation can be got on the laying out of home grounds. Oneof these is Gridlands Practical Landscape Gardening. The
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