. Beautiful home surroundings. Landscape gardening; Nurseries (Horticulture). 20 Screen Planting The planting of shrubs and trees around one's place can be made to do much more than beautify. For instance, possibly there is an unpretty view from some of your windows, or porch â a cut-away embankment, an unkempt vacant lot, or the service yard of a neighbor's place with its attendant flapping line of clothes on wash-days. Or perhaps your neighbor is a bit careless and permits refuse to collect in his back yard. If so, the vista from your windows may be something like that shown in sketch No. 6.
. Beautiful home surroundings. Landscape gardening; Nurseries (Horticulture). 20 Screen Planting The planting of shrubs and trees around one's place can be made to do much more than beautify. For instance, possibly there is an unpretty view from some of your windows, or porch â a cut-away embankment, an unkempt vacant lot, or the service yard of a neighbor's place with its attendant flapping line of clothes on wash-days. Or perhaps your neighbor is a bit careless and permits refuse to collect in his back yard. If so, the vista from your windows may be something like that shown in sketch No. Sketch No. 6 How much more pleasing the view would be if by planting Framingham Nursery stock you were to make it resemble something like Sketch No. 7. ^a^wT^^3WM^*V .. ^4^^ â ^^"^.il y" -^ 1 mI Hh' ^' ^HH '-â¢p^ fS^Hi III p m^^ Is there anything attractive^in this back yard with its flapping wash? The harmony of surroundings is completely spoiled. Such a screen is made up very similarly to the way we have already suggested for Foundation planting; using for the back (or outside) row any of the very tall growing shrubs listed on Page 26; with possibly a tree or two to give it point; see Page 28. In the next row (nearer your house) and on the ends of the back row, fairly tall or medium shrubs FRAMINGHAM NURSERIES â FRAMINGHAM, 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 [Framingham nurseries, Framingham, Mass. ] [from old catalog]. [Framingham, Mass. , Framingham nurseries]
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