. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent. Landscape gardening; Trees. CHAPTER XVI THE RENOVATION OF OLD PLACES. WHATEVER objection may be urged against buying and renovating old houses, will not apply to the purchase of ground stocked with old trees and shrubs. Many a rickety, neglected place, is filled with choice old materials, which, with small expenditures in clear- ing away the superfluities, and polishing the lawn, will group at once into pleasing pictures. Such neglected places may be com- pared with a head of luxuriant hair all uncombed and disorderly, which needs
. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent. Landscape gardening; Trees. CHAPTER XVI THE RENOVATION OF OLD PLACES. WHATEVER objection may be urged against buying and renovating old houses, will not apply to the purchase of ground stocked with old trees and shrubs. Many a rickety, neglected place, is filled with choice old materials, which, with small expenditures in clear- ing away the superfluities, and polishing the lawn, will group at once into pleasing pictures. Such neglected places may be com- pared with a head of luxuriant hair all uncombed and disorderly, which needs but to be clean and arranged with taste to become a crown of beauty to the wearer. Old yards are generally filled with mature trees of choice species, but so huddled together, and filled in with lank neglected shrubs and tangled grass, that one observes only the shiftlessness and disorder, and turns with greater pleasure to look upon a polished lawn with not a tree upon it:—as in music a single note given purely and clearly is more pleasing than the greatest variety of sounds making discords together. But a week's work among:. 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 Scott, Frank Jesup, 1828- [from old catalog]. New York, D. Appleton & company
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