The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extentWith descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States . le and out-buildings are entirely disconnected from the pleasure-walks. Thecarriage-road which connects with the steps of the back veranda isfor the use of the family and household friends only; the street onthe main front being the place for casual callers to alight. Had the house been originally designed for the lot as it nowstands, it could doubtless have had its best rooms arranged to lookout more directly on the best portions of the grounds
The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extentWith descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States . le and out-buildings are entirely disconnected from the pleasure-walks. Thecarriage-road which connects with the steps of the back veranda isfor the use of the family and household friends only; the street onthe main front being the place for casual callers to alight. Had the house been originally designed for the lot as it nowstands, it could doubtless have had its best rooms arranged to lookout more directly on the best portions of the grounds. As it is, theparlor gets no part of the benefit of the enlargement of the placeby the addition of the rear lot. ]5ut the dining-room I), by a widewindow or low-glazed door opening upon the back veranda, com-mands a full ^?iew of the croquet and archery groimd, and its sur-rounding embellishments ; and the family sitting-room S securesa similar view with a different fore-ground, by a bay-window pro-jected boldly towards the side-street for that purpose. The outlookfrom the unusually large parlor on this plan, depends mostly on the Plate XXV:. d1^ JVV> 2 H AND GROUNDS. 223 adjoining place for the fine open lawn that is in view fi-om the bow-window ; but as the finest rooms of the house on lot 2 are equallydependent on the outlook across lot i for their pleasing views, itis not to be supposed that the occupants of either would wish tointerrupt the advantageous exchange. The extreme openness oflawn on the front of both places, and the almost total absence ofshrubbery on the front of No. i, is for the purpose of giving a gener-ous air to both, and to maintain all the advantages of would be quite natural to suppose that No. i, which is an oldplace remodelled, had once had its front yard filled full of shrubsand trees, and that in the formation of the new lawn in the rear theshrubbery was mostly removed to make the lawn more open, andto stock the groups of the new
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