. Biggle garden book; vegetables, small fruits and flowers for pleasure and profit. Gardening; Vegetable gardening. Chapter XVI THE FLOWER GARDEN fl^. 1 he man ivJio cheerfully sets tlie spade wliere his wife directs, and lends himself ivillingly to her desires in the fioiver garden, has in him the vital elements of good citizen- ship and is a safe man to trust.—Tim. 0H, for the return of the old- fashioned flower garden! Years ago flowers were grown in bor- ders rather than in beds—box- edged borders on each side of a rear walk, or alongside a fence or a wall or a building, filled with a prof
. Biggle garden book; vegetables, small fruits and flowers for pleasure and profit. Gardening; Vegetable gardening. Chapter XVI THE FLOWER GARDEN fl^. 1 he man ivJio cheerfully sets tlie spade wliere his wife directs, and lends himself ivillingly to her desires in the fioiver garden, has in him the vital elements of good citizen- ship and is a safe man to trust.—Tim. 0H, for the return of the old- fashioned flower garden! Years ago flowers were grown in bor- ders rather than in beds—box- edged borders on each side of a rear walk, or alongside a fence or a wall or a building, filled with a profusion of old- time favorites growing in a de- lightfully informal mass of color and variety. In those days the nightmare "beds" (dug out of the lawn in round or fanciful shapes) filled with geraniums or foliage plants (set straight and exactly even all around), were not common. George H. Ellwanger, in The Garden's Story, touches a tender spot in my heart when he says: "One passes many neglected farm-gardens along the road. Here, an old locust and mock-orange have been allowed to sprout at will: the blue iris has crept outside the fence, with clumps of double daffodils turned over by the plow and flung on to the roadside. There is a jungle of stunted quinces and blighted pear trees. The spreading myrtle patch has usurped the place of what was once a lawn; tall thistles, hog-weed, pig-weed and burdocks. 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 Biggle, Jacob. Philadelphia, W. Atkinson Co. , 1912
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