Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-04-26

How shall | arrange my little front
yard, of less than thirty feet square, to
make it look the best" writes new cor
respondent. Having given our friend
from Connecticut the English plan de-
sired, we will now give a simple plan of
our own, and we would like to see them
both made, side by side. 1t is not well
to have every little garden an exact copy
OF its neighbor, for there is beauty in di-
versity. In gardening it is best not to at
tempt more than we can accomplish, but
10 do everything in the best possible man
ner. In so small space the plan should
be simple. Much has been written
against straight walks, and in conse-
quence there has, for some years, been a
mania for curved paths, and many little
front yards have been sadly disigured by
desperate attempt to make a graceful
curve in little walk leading from the
street to the front door, and perhaps not
more than twenty feet in length. All
such walks should be straight, and the at.
tempt 10 make then, otherwise is ridicu-
lous. With good, neat and broad walk
to the front door, from this a narrower
one leading to the rear of the house, you
have all the walks necessary, and all that
will look we'll. In a lot Only thirty feet
in width, the walk leading to the front
door will be, of course, only few feet
from one side of the lot, leaving space
for a little unbroken lawn about twenty
by thirty feet, if the house should stand
thirty feet from the street. The space on
the other side of the walk will be only a
narrow border. Have all the space not
used for the walk graded nicely, and Gov
cred with grass, either by sodding or
sowing seed Seed must be sown in
early iall or spring, and sodding should
he done at the same seasons. Keep the
grass in perfect order by frequent cut
ting, and it will look well at all times,
except during severe drouths in the mid
die of summer. If it can have soaking
OF water once or twice a week, it will be
as green as emerald in the Northern
States from April to November, ana in
some places nearly or quite the whole
year. Kentucky Blue Grass or lawn grass
seed, which is about the same, is the best
seed to SOW.
Now we have the foundation of all or
namental gardening, a good walk and a
we'll kept lawn, and there is little more to
uo-only just little ornamenting or gid
ing. This must be done sparingly. Pro-
luse ornamentation outrages all good taste,
so we will make a bed in the middle OF
The lawn, of some simple form, circle or
an oval This would lock well filled with
caladimus and cannas. If these should
De TOO expensive, ten cents worth OF
striped and blotched petunia seed would
give plants enough for two such beds. and
would be exceedingly snowy, and endure
al summer Thanks to a kind Provi-
dence, beauty is cheap-almost, and often
thtlfely, without money or price. a few
shrubs around the edges of the little lawn
perhaps To screen the fence or any other
OBJECT, some climbers over the front door,
Ike the astrolochia. and a climbing rose
al or near the corner of the house farthest
Eum the front door, and you have done
about all that can be done to beautify SO
small space. Instead OF the flower bed
IN the center of the lawn it would not be
bad plan to substitute fine, well filled
vase, with a small bed Of flowers neal
each corner, or a few half moon shaped
beds near the fences
Garden work needs large stock of pa.
llenCe and we are pleased that il is so; il
Is an excellent discipline for an irritable
temper. Things will not all prove salts
factory for the first season; but we see
reason to hope tor better things next year
ana we have enough success To give Us
laiih IN the future. What grand schoo
LOT The culture of patience, faith and hope
lhen some Of our work proves 10 be il
excellent taste, while portion We dislike
ana resolve 10 change and improve anoth