. Garden guide, the amateur gardeners' handbook; how to plan, plant and maintain the home grounds, the suburban garden, the city lot. How to grow good vegetables and fruit. How to care for roses and other favorite flowers, hardy plants, trees, shrubs, lawns, porch plants and window boxes. Chapters on garden furniture and accessories, with selected lists of plants, etc. Heavily illustrated with teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographes, all made expressly for this great little text book ... Gardening. CHAPTER III Hedges and Fences MUCH has been said of late regeirding the wholesal
. Garden guide, the amateur gardeners' handbook; how to plan, plant and maintain the home grounds, the suburban garden, the city lot. How to grow good vegetables and fruit. How to care for roses and other favorite flowers, hardy plants, trees, shrubs, lawns, porch plants and window boxes. Chapters on garden furniture and accessories, with selected lists of plants, etc. Heavily illustrated with teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographes, all made expressly for this great little text book ... Gardening. CHAPTER III Hedges and Fences MUCH has been said of late regeirding the wholesale manner in which fashion has dictated that every sort of fence and boundary should be removed. The word " garden " celrries with it the meaning of enclosure. We in America are getting more and more away from having even our own dooryards to. Moderate sized country house facing east. It is on a slope, which is terraced. Liberal use is made of evergreens, including Rhododendrons. A road which Isn't seen in the picture, winds past the front to the north (or right hand) side of the house ourselves. Often we cannot tell where our province leaves oiT and the next begins. Marauders have full sweep. There is something homely about an enclosure with some degree of privacy. Because the city is abolishing everything for such privacy we wish at times to be by ourselves, and the country is chosen. Hedges or boundaries need not be emphasized, but let us not fear to put up some little shrubbery to shield us from the public gaze, and let us enclose parts of our own domain by a low hedge. Formidable fences are not advocated, but private areas bounded by hedges are always interesting. 30. 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 Dick, John Harrison, 1877- ed. New York, A. T. De La Mare company, inc
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