. Landscape gardening. Notes and suggestions on lawns and lawn planting--laying out and arrangement of country places, large and small parks, cemetery plots, and railway-station lawns--deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs--the hardy border-bedding plants--rockwork, etc. Landscape gardening. GRANDMOTHERS GARDEN. 209. ERIANTHUS RAVENN/E. place are planted continuous borders of mixed trees and shrubs intended to secure a sense of seclusion, while in front are left two openings to give a view of passers-by and a glimpse of outside life and companionship. On the left of the house a walk /'"
. Landscape gardening. Notes and suggestions on lawns and lawn planting--laying out and arrangement of country places, large and small parks, cemetery plots, and railway-station lawns--deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs--the hardy border-bedding plants--rockwork, etc. Landscape gardening. GRANDMOTHERS GARDEN. 209. ERIANTHUS RAVENN/E. place are planted continuous borders of mixed trees and shrubs intended to secure a sense of seclusion, while in front are left two openings to give a view of passers-by and a glimpse of outside life and companionship. On the left of the house a walk /'""5jfflSlilffM^rr> winds from the front door to a fine old shade tree Avith a seat ai'ound it, and so along the outside border of shrubbery to a summer-house in the rear. At the back of the house the ground originally sloped up I'apidly so that it became necessary to form a terrace in order to manage the drainage successfully. Between this terrace and the house, shut in by shrub- bery on both sides, was arranged a mat of carpet bedding caref all}' designed with Alternantheras, JScheverias, Pyretli- ru7ns, and Gnuphaliums, so as to secure an artistic arrangement of vivid green, yellow, red, and white. The spot is isolated, and part, as it were, of the architecture of the house. In such places only, on country places, do we consider planting of this kind admissible. In any other sj)ot, away from the house, such designs are artificial and out of key. Passing up two flights of stone steps that ascend to the terrace with their intervening terrace walk, we come to the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Parsons, Samuel, 1844-1923. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons
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