. Garden guide; the amateur gardeners' handbook. Profusely illustrated with over 275 teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographs, all made expressly for this standard text book . Fig, D —Planting plan to insure besteffect of shade, outlook, protectionand privacy on a lot facing west Reproduced from Cornell Bulletin 361 18 GARDEN GUIDE. Havent you seen many working mens houses justlike this—gaunt and bare, no neat hedges, no neatlawns, not even a Geranium or a Canna in sight? some shady corner wecan enjoy a siesta ora book in the openair? The fact is we donot make half enoughuse of t
. Garden guide; the amateur gardeners' handbook. Profusely illustrated with over 275 teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographs, all made expressly for this standard text book . Fig, D —Planting plan to insure besteffect of shade, outlook, protectionand privacy on a lot facing west Reproduced from Cornell Bulletin 361 18 GARDEN GUIDE. Havent you seen many working mens houses justlike this—gaunt and bare, no neat hedges, no neatlawns, not even a Geranium or a Canna in sight? some shady corner wecan enjoy a siesta ora book in the openair? The fact is we donot make half enoughuse of the groundsabout our homes;they are left blank inmost instances. Wewarmly urge theplanting of Ughtscreen belts of treesand hedges aroundthe property, whichneed not be so dense as to prevent a neighbor or passerby fromenjoying glimpses of yom* garden. Kegels Privet, Cahfornia broad-leaved Privet, Golden Privet, Hemlock, Arbor Vitae, Austrian Pine,White Pine, Norway Spruce, Rambler Roses, Ivy, Ampelopsis, Planetrees, Berberis Thimbergii, are among the easily grown subjects thatare useful in such screen belts, and most of which can be increased onones own place at httle expense if the suggestions given in anotherpart of this book are carried out. The initial expense of planting the outer parts and main featuresof the grounds or garden need
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