Show Wise Owner Makes His Garden Part of Home If It you yon really realty use and enjoy your garden you ou must make It look us as though it were a part parl of your our home If the only way you have of getting to it is through the kitchen and the back porch where only the garbage can or I ice e box or cleaning bucket live your garden will not look that way The transition from house to garden n must be gradual and attractive If the house and garden are to seem like one unit If It It Is possible to enter the garden from a room living-room or room dining so much the better In that case even en If the garden is tiny It is Is' Is well to make a small brick platform or or oran an informal flagging around the steps If It the lawn is low below the doorway a n prettier effect Teet is gained by making a small terracing up to 10 the steps than by having hn a long flight of at steps One step or two down to the terrace will wUl willbe willbe be prettier than six steps down to a n flat fiat lawn On this flagstone or brick platform you ou can put comfortable porch furniture and perhaps a bright awning or lawn parasol Here you youcan youcan youcan can have a place more outdoorsy out than a regular porch and yet et as com com- It will be dry to your feet and yet Jet there will be comfortable chairs to sit In The older oIlIer members of any family will enjoy it more th than sitting In the real garden |