Little gardens; how to beautify city yards and small country spaces . esher softest yet most brilliant effects away fromthe earth and paints them over the sky. Thereare fashions in trees, as there are in shirt-waistsand parasols, and a present tendency is towardlow-growing species, of weeping habit,though willows are no longer elected. Weep-in willers environ some New England man-sions still, and in central New York a few ave-nues of poplars remain before the abodes of elegance —Lombardy poplars, the propertree, let them say what they will, to surround agentlemans mansion, as an old writer obs
Little gardens; how to beautify city yards and small country spaces . esher softest yet most brilliant effects away fromthe earth and paints them over the sky. Thereare fashions in trees, as there are in shirt-waistsand parasols, and a present tendency is towardlow-growing species, of weeping habit,though willows are no longer elected. Weep-in willers environ some New England man-sions still, and in central New York a few ave-nues of poplars remain before the abodes of elegance —Lombardy poplars, the propertree, let them say what they will, to surround agentlemans mansion, as an old writer trees of dark and solid green, privet,spruce, the West Indian bay, palms and rubber-plants are always useful, and in a small yardthey can surround a floral square or circle. Onefashion of dealing with them is to make a gravelring about a flower-bed, place the tubs upon thisring, and plant a border of foliage plants stilloutside of them, to conceal the lower part of thetubs, as in Fig. 22. If the long dimension of the house fronts on107 LITTLE GARDENS. the street and wholly fills the width of the lotthe yard at the back will repeat its shape. Insuch a case the yard might have an ornamentalcenter with subcenters at each end. Of late we have seen an extension of Spanishmission architecture, a simple, and in some partsof the land appropriate style, not merely forchurches, but for residences, and Orange, N. J.,has chosen it for a jail, determined that herrogues shall go through the form of going tochurch. If a home built in this manner is large,and parked about, it makes as pleasant and al-most as picturesque an object as those Doric tem-io8 THE COUNTRY YARD
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