It is not necessary that the garden contain only vegetables. Flowers may be planted here and there wherever a vacant spot occurs or a plant dies. Such informal and mixed gardens have a personal character that adds greatly to their interest and value. This informal character of the home-garden is popular in many European countries. This is a type of planting that arises from the necessity of making the most of every inch of land. In a Bavarian peasant's garden, I saw on a space about 40 feet by 100 feet in area, a delightful medley of onions, pole beans, peonies, celery, gooseberries, coleus, cabbages, sunflowers, beets, poppies, cucumbers, morning-glories, verbenas, bush beans, stocks, currants, wormwood, parsley, carrots, kale, perennial phlox, nasturtiums, lettuce, and lilies!

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