191

A PERGOLA SUGGESTION 195

A SIMPLE PERGOLA FRAMEWORK 198

GARDENER'S TOOL-HOUSE 200

A BORDER OF CREEPING PHLOX 220

IN SUMMER 224

IN WINTER 224

PORCH BOX 238

PORCH BOX 254

PLANTING TO HIDE FOUNDATION WALLS 272

The Illustrations are reproduced from photographs by J. F. Murray.

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THE LAWN: HOW TO MAKE IT AND HOW TO TAKE CARE OF IT

The owner of the average small home seldom goes to the expense of
employing the professional gardener to do the work of lawn-making.
Sometimes he cannot afford to do so. Sometimes skilled labor is not
obtainable. The consequence is, in the majority of cases, the lawn,--or
what, by courtesy, is called by that name,--is a sort of evolution which
is an improvement on the original conditions surrounding the home, but
which never reaches a satisfactory stage. We see such lawns
everywhere--rough, uneven, bare in spots, anything but attractive in a
general way, and but little better than the yard which has been given no
attention, were it not for the shrubs and plants that have been set out
in them. The probabilities are that if you ask the owner of such a place
why he has no lawn worth the name, he will give one or the other of the
reasons I have made mention of above as his excuse for the existing
condition of things about the home. If you ask him why he has not
undertaken the work himself, he will most likely answer that he lacks
the knowledge necessary to the making of a fine lawn, and rather than
experiment with it he has chosen to let it alone.

Now the fact is--lawn-making has nothing mysterious about it, as so many
seem to think. It does not call for skilled labor. It need not be an
expensive undertaking. Any man who owns a home that he desires to make
the most of can make himself a lawn that will be quite as satisfactory,
in nearly every instance, as the one made by the professional
gardener--more so, in fact, since what we make f