. Manual of gardening; a practical guide to the making of home grounds and the growing of flowers, fruits, and vegetables for home use . two playgrounds are separated by a broken group ofbushes extending from the building to the rear boundary;but, in general, the spaces are kept open, and the heavyborder-masses clothe , the place and make | it home-like. Thelineal extent of thegroup margins is as-tonishingly large,and along all thesemargins flowers maybe planted, if de-sired. If there is onlysix feet between aschoolhouse and thefence, there is stillroom for a border ofshrubs. This border
. Manual of gardening; a practical guide to the making of home grounds and the growing of flowers, fruits, and vegetables for home use . two playgrounds are separated by a broken group ofbushes extending from the building to the rear boundary;but, in general, the spaces are kept open, and the heavyborder-masses clothe , the place and make | it home-like. Thelineal extent of thegroup margins is as-tonishingly large,and along all thesemargins flowers maybe planted, if de-sired. If there is onlysix feet between aschoolhouse and thefence, there is stillroom for a border ofshrubs. This bordershould be betweenthe walk and thefence, — on the very boundary, —not between the walk andthe building, for in the latter case the planting divides thepremises and weakens the effect. A space two feet wide willallow of an irregular wall of bushes, if tall buildings do not cutout the light; and if the area is one hundred feet long, thirtyto fifty kinds of shrubs and flowers can be grown to perfection,and the school-grounds will be practically no smaller for theplantation. One cannot make a plan of a place until he knows what he. 4. Suggestion for a school-ground on a four-corners. 12 , MANUAL OF GARDENING wants to do with the property; and therefore we may devotethe remainder of this chapter to developing the idea in the lay-out of the premises rather than to the details of map-makingand planting. Because I speak of the free treatment of garden spaces in thisbook it must not be inferred that any reflection is intended formal garden. There are many places in which the for-mal or architects garden is much to be desired; but eachof these cases should be treated wholly by itself and be made apart of the architectural setting of the place. These ques-tions are outside the sphere of this book. All formal gardensare properly individual studies. All very special types of garden design are naturally excludedfrom a book of this kind, such types, for example, as Japanesegardening
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