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Show MAKE HOME BEAUTIFUL. Man may be refitted and happy without a garden ; he miy even have a hooie of taste, we suppose, without a tree, shrub or flower j yet, when the Groat or made 'Heaven and Earth' and wished to prepare a proper home for man, whom He made in His own image, He planted a garden and plared this noblest specimen of creative power in it to dress it, and to keep it. We could have pleasant homes and beautiful gardens now, if we wished, as it costs but little io ornament and beautify ihem with ornamental trees, shrubs and flowers as well as fruit trees and vines, Vick's Floral Guide says: ''Few things pleased us more when in Europe than the skill exhibited in giving an air of rural taste to small city lots, many of them so very small that few Americans would be willing to attempt ornamental gardening on so diminutive a scale. And yet, if we can make a parlor or sitting-room bi autilul in winter with a few plants, why can we not make a small paradise of a twenty-foot-square 'front yard.' Many of the yards we refer to were"not more than twenty feet in width, and yet remarkable remark-able as specimens of taste. Some of i these little gardens were attached to m,,, Mtt,. -imw?i i . ----- bouses in rows ; others belonged to what are known as semi-detached cot- tt tages that is. two onlj joined togeth- er. JH We give a specimen of one of these little front gardens, or, as they are sometimes called, entrance courts Thf; lots are sometimes so narrow that the raised bed is made several feet from the centre o allow of free pas- B sage on one side. The English peo B pie seem to love seclusion, and so the H front yard is usually bounded by a B wall ou every side, as we have, in B a measure, shown in the engraving, B and would be fearfully unsightly but B for the fact that these walls are orna- B mented. and so'uetimes concealed with fl I climbers and other beautiful plants S The ornamental border that surrounds B the central bed is ucualiy rich, and - fl made to resemble stone. The border for the beds on the sides ia generally common burnt clay tiles of neat de- , jB signs. The smnll engraving on last V A TM page shows a very good pattern. J yfl jl Sometimes a bold vase is used for the j 1 centre j und we have seen a little rock- j 1 ery occtipy the place, but it is not the place for a rockeiy. The space not occupied by beds is covered with flagging flag-ging or gravel." ft is easy to make your homes beautiful beau-tiful and attractive if you are so inclined, in-clined, but those who have noinclina- ; ! tion to beautify find it very irksome to 4 do so. Every home should have its , " neat little flower garden, interspersed i I with evergreen shrubbery, to atttact j the children's attention, and they will enjoy themselves picking and playing ( - with the flowers and examining the , ; evergreens. Make home attractive and, it will promote happiness, - ' r ' j ' m |