Little gardens; how to beautify city yards and small country spaces . d a lawn, rather than as a seriesof beds and lawns. There is no lost space. Thelines follow those of the fences and party walls,and have not a particle of originality or charac-ter. Your flowers will have something of theappearance of exhibits on the shelves of a mu-seum. Hard, set form will, therefore, be an at-tribute of this device. It can, however, be modi-fied by the insertion of a central bed, the sidebeds being curved along their faces to conformto it geometrically. This breaks the severityof the plan somewhat, yet it
Little gardens; how to beautify city yards and small country spaces . d a lawn, rather than as a seriesof beds and lawns. There is no lost space. Thelines follow those of the fences and party walls,and have not a particle of originality or charac-ter. Your flowers will have something of theappearance of exhibits on the shelves of a mu-seum. Hard, set form will, therefore, be an at-tribute of this device. It can, however, be modi-fied by the insertion of a central bed, the sidebeds being curved along their faces to conformto it geometrically. This breaks the severityof the plan somewhat, yet it is still rigid, andunless the neighbors had a good deal of greenthat appeared above their fences you would feelthat you had more than your share of flowers,and they the less. 42 THE CITY YARD It would be better if the central circle werea pool or a fountain than a flower-bed, if circum-stances permitted. That would relieve the ap-pearance of crowding which would result fromthe addition of still another bed to those thatoccupy so large a part of the surface. If you. Fig. 4. — I, 2, 3, Flower-beds; 4, sun-dial. would cultivate few varieties of flowers, but havea quantity of each, a division of this sort com-mends itself. If you filled bed number i withtulips, number 2 with hyacinths and kept num-ber 3 for tall and hardy flowers, there would bea rare bravery of color and great delight of fra- 43 LITTLE GARDENS grance in the spring; then, after the fading, youcould take out and store the bulbs for fall plant-ing, and fill their places with summer is one of the temptations to a yard owner towork his ground to the limit, having so little ofit; and while it insures constant bloom, to buypotted plants at the greenhouses, plunge theminto the soil, keep them for a fortnight or so,then cast them out to make room for novelties,your real gardener will not do this. To saynothing of the cost, it is best to grow up with theplant children, to know their traits. You lovethem the b
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