Successful farming : a ready reference on all phases of agriculture for farmers of the United States and Canada . t inhospitable, because of the lack of thisplanting which lends a warming influence to the building, than from any 536 SUCCESSFUL FARMING other reason. Against unattractive objects or views noted in the prelim-inary survey should of course be arranged a heavy plantation. It may takeon a little different character and contain many trees, especially the smallergrowing kinds, as well as evergreens and closely planted shrubs. Do notforget the softening influence of clinging vines in he
Successful farming : a ready reference on all phases of agriculture for farmers of the United States and Canada . t inhospitable, because of the lack of thisplanting which lends a warming influence to the building, than from any 536 SUCCESSFUL FARMING other reason. Against unattractive objects or views noted in the prelim-inary survey should of course be arranged a heavy plantation. It may takeon a little different character and contain many trees, especially the smallergrowing kinds, as well as evergreens and closely planted shrubs. Do notforget the softening influence of clinging vines in helping to harmonizehouses and landscape and to afford privacy to porches and service trees do not clothe the earth and in this dissertation are left to thelast for the reason that shrubbery and vines and grass are all-importantin home ornamentation; shade trees are not so often forgotten or so badlyused by the amateur planter. Arrange them in groups, not rows, of differ-ent species, and for lawn specimens, endeavor to preserve the lower and roadside trees are of a different ideal,. Hyacinth Use of Flowers.—The use of flowers and flower beds in home orna-mentation is not to be discouraged, although it harbors much danger inchances of introducing colors and material difficult to place and to har-monize with most natural landscape. If the advice be confined to thattype of flowers called old-fashioned hardy plants, the matter is simpli-fied. They add charm to most shrubberies and lawns when planted alongin front of the shrub beds, arranged in and out among the shrubs. Theother class of flowers known as bedding plants, which includes gera-niums, cannas, coleus, salvia and so forth, is more difficult to blend, moreforeign to simple places and more predominant in its color note. Suchbedding can be best used directly against the house, but never in beds,stars, crescents and bologna sausage shapes, in the middle of the lawn, 1 Courtesy of The Countrys
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