. Around the year in the garden, a seasonable guide and reminder for work with vegetables, fruits, and flowers, and under glass. Gardening; Vegetable gardening. 46 AROUND THE YEAR IN THE GARDEN dinate part of the flower bed or border, so the beds, borders, lawns and the other features of the place should each be subordinate to the whole. Don't be afraid that this is too nearly a professional task for you to accomplish. You will achieve more satisfactory results by working in the right direction, even if you make many mistakes, than if you work in no direction at all. It is almost always desira


. Around the year in the garden, a seasonable guide and reminder for work with vegetables, fruits, and flowers, and under glass. Gardening; Vegetable gardening. 46 AROUND THE YEAR IN THE GARDEN dinate part of the flower bed or border, so the beds, borders, lawns and the other features of the place should each be subordinate to the whole. Don't be afraid that this is too nearly a professional task for you to accomplish. You will achieve more satisfactory results by working in the right direction, even if you make many mistakes, than if you work in no direction at all. It is almost always desirable to create an appearance of roominess about a small place. One of the most important points to be remembered is to keep an open center, so far as possible, by keeping tall things VEGE-TABue GARDEN ^4 <© Q C-? €3 €•3. In planning your place, do not scatter shrubs and flower beds all over. Keep an open stretch of lawn. back along the boundary line, and also to avoid straight and definite terminations of paths, roadways and vistas, so that the suggestion of something beyond may be created at every point. The materials available from which you may construct your flower garden belong to three classes: Hardy per- ennial plants; potted bedding plants, which are usually obtained from the florist or may have been started from seed in your frames or small greenhouse; and plants from. 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 Rockwell, F. F. (Frederick Frye), 1884-1976. New York, The Macmillan company


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