Little gardens; how to beautify city yards and small country spaces . e, needs more of ornamental it has from Gothic enrichments in the oldEnglish halls, and on the Continent it is begin-ning to take on outside decorations, often paintedon gables and blank spaces. Because a largestructure fills the eye more nearly, it causes themore discontent if it is ugly. If the garden hasarea enough, the house is seen at landscape dis-tance, and becomes important as a part of thepicture; hence we can devise vistas with thehouse itself at one end, and a passage of agree-able scenery at the ot
Little gardens; how to beautify city yards and small country spaces . e, needs more of ornamental it has from Gothic enrichments in the oldEnglish halls, and on the Continent it is begin-ning to take on outside decorations, often paintedon gables and blank spaces. Because a largestructure fills the eye more nearly, it causes themore discontent if it is ugly. If the garden hasarea enough, the house is seen at landscape dis-tance, and becomes important as a part of thepicture; hence we can devise vistas with thehouse itself at one end, and a passage of agree-able scenery at the other. These effects, callingfor landscape-gardening on a large scale, arehardly to be considered in a book on smallgrounds. They require at least an acre. Theview, however, may be as free to the occupantof a hovel as to the owner of a Biltmore, andwhere it is present it serves for laying out theguide-lines of a garden composition. Here isa plan, carried into effect in a country place nearPhiladelphia. The view is supposed to be to-ward the rear. lOO THE COUNTRY YARD. Fig. 18.—A, Flower-beds; B, vines; C, hedges; 2),pool, surrounded by coleus and plants with ornamental leaves. The back of the house Is draped with vhies,and tubbed yews and cedars are placed along theborders of the Avalk. The drive, by which car-riages may enter the premises from the highroad toward a barn, which is rather distant andis not shown here, is spanned by an arched trel-lis covered with vines, so that a visitor is in-ducted at once into the garden, unless he entersby the front door. Hedges enclose the wholearea and also partition the lawn from the kitch-en-garden, so that the vegetables are not in viewfrom the front, although there need be no timid-ity as to exhibiting these In the country. lOI LITTLE GARDENS A place in New Jersey has a broad walkleading from the house toward a lovely woodedand watered valley, this walk containing a chainof flower-beds in the center, a border of lawnon either side, wit
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