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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar71910newy (find matches)
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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490 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS December, 1910
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A garden walk Border showing Valerine Peonia Spirari Second Garden Prize Won by James M. Hull, Esq., Hamilton, Ontario, Canada FEW years ago, in the month of July, we marigold, with a background of shrubs and vines. The gar- moved into our new home. It was too den is distinctly an individual one, planned and worked by late in the season to have a flower garden one person, embellished and beautified with comparatively then. But having a great desire for one, simple means, and a few hours' hard work every week in I though I would dig and get it ready for the beginning. It is a garden of gay blooming, sweet the fall planting. When I went to spade scented flowers. It has been planned and planted as an out- it I found the soil so very hard I could door living-room, for the summer months. Its gradual de- not make a dent in it, even with an axe. So I gave it up until velopment brought up the questions of permanence, ar- the fall when I put on sand and manure, or any soil I could tistic arrangement, harmony of color and the lengthening get that was suitable to mix with the clay. I dug the border of the flowering period. Beginning In the latter part of

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