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Title: American homes and gardens
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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Bean) that there is left asuggestion and a possibilityat least of something be-yond. Not only plant thetallest things at the back, butin front of these put lowerthings and in front of theseagain still lower ones untilyou get down as near theground level as possible.This not only keeps all theplants in sight and preventstheir hiding one another, butin this way even a very nar-row border may be given anappearance of depth, that istruly wonderful. These several points maybe emphasized with effectin planning the small gar-den for the small house. MATERIALS FOR A SMALLGARDEN Although there is roomhere for not even a verybrief description of the vari-ous things available to thegardener seeking to makethe most out of his small Here one sees how delightful a little garden may be made, an adorn-ment to any home narrow bor- area of space, nevertheless the following suggestions may(Castor Oil be useful. As a general thing it will be better to try to
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Clumps of flowers massed above are excellent substitutes for small gardens, when otherwise one would have no garden at all 156 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS May, 1913 stick to things that are of asmall size—for instanceone often sees a giantHydrangea placed where, asfar as the size of thegrounds or the house is con-cerned, a shrub of aboutone third of its dimensionswould have been much moresuitable. Also, until you getyour grounds permanentlyarranged you may find itvery convenient to make useof Annuals where eventu-ally you may expect to havehardy shrubs or herbaciousPerennials. In this way, tallCannas, Castor Beans, Sun-flowers, Summer Cypress

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