The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extentWith descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States . ecies of labor, and not to another class who may have chosenthe profession from a love for it, and who have intelligence orimagination enough to understand something of the art of arrang-ing their sylvan and floral materials so as to make pictures withthem. Almost every neighborhood has a few gentlemen of superiortaste in such matters, whose dictums will, perforce, help to educatethe common run of self-sufficient gardeners ; and it is hoped that
The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extentWith descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States . ecies of labor, and not to another class who may have chosenthe profession from a love for it, and who have intelligence orimagination enough to understand something of the art of arrang-ing their sylvan and floral materials so as to make pictures withthem. Almost every neighborhood has a few gentlemen of superiortaste in such matters, whose dictums will, perforce, help to educatethe common run of self-sufficient gardeners ; and it is hoped thatso promising a field of labor will soon attract the attention ofAmericans of the highest culture, to whom we can turn for profes-sional work in ground designs; who, as Pope describes one— Consults the genius of the place in allThat tells the waters or to rise or fall;Or helps the ambitious hill the heavens to scale,Or scoops in circling theatres the vale:Calls in the country, catches opening willing woods, and varies shades from shades;Now breaks or now directs the intending lines,Paints as you plant, and, as you work, designs 1^. ~5jf
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