. How to plan the home grounds;. Landscape gardening. FENCES, BRIDGES, AND SUMMER-HOUSES 189 If it can be so arranged, it is a good idea to secure variations in the seclusion of hedge-rows, or shrub and tree borders, by leaving out trees at considerable inter- vals, and thus securing more distant and agreeable views which, in any case, are valuable for the change they give to the general scope of the scenery. There is naturally, no ordinary limit to the small size of the place or village lot where this hedge-row, or border, can be used effect- ively, because three trees and a dozen shrubs of t
. How to plan the home grounds;. Landscape gardening. FENCES, BRIDGES, AND SUMMER-HOUSES 189 If it can be so arranged, it is a good idea to secure variations in the seclusion of hedge-rows, or shrub and tree borders, by leaving out trees at considerable inter- vals, and thus securing more distant and agreeable views which, in any case, are valuable for the change they give to the general scope of the scenery. There is naturally, no ordinary limit to the small size of the place or village lot where this hedge-row, or border, can be used effect- ively, because three trees and a dozen shrubs of the '«.!. SUMMER-HOUSE, CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK. right kind, and rightly arranged, will make, in their way, as satisfactory and agreeable a screen for the hard lines of the fence or stone wall, as if they were replaced by a bordering of shrubs and trees a mile long. Naturally, the normal size of the kinds of shrubs and trees used on narrow, long lots, fifty or seventy-five feet by a hundred and fifty feet, should be much smaller, since the scale of ever3rthing is smaller. The problem of designing summer-houses, arbors, and what are termed rustic buildings of different kinds, and setting them at suitable points on the lawn, naturally. 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, Jr. 1844-1923. New York: Doubleday & McClure Co.
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