Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches . constructing a wall,this being considerable greater than that ofa fence; and the interference in most soilsfrom frost, causing the wall to lose its shapeand in time to crumble away. Figure 3 shows a modification of the pre-ceding figures such as possesses advantagesover both. Here the important bold sweepof lawn peculiar to No. 2 is preserved,while instead of the wall a slope similarto that of figure 1 is brought in, but di-rectly inside of the fence. By the helpof our engraviogs it is
Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches . constructing a wall,this being considerable greater than that ofa fence; and the interference in most soilsfrom frost, causing the wall to lose its shapeand in time to crumble away. Figure 3 shows a modification of the pre-ceding figures such as possesses advantagesover both. Here the important bold sweepof lawn peculiar to No. 2 is preserved,while instead of the wall a slope similarto that of figure 1 is brought in, but di-rectly inside of the fence. By the helpof our engraviogs it is easily imagined thatwith a like house situated on these threegrades respectively, the ones on those of fig-ure 3 or 3 would appear to far better advan-tage than the one on figure 1. The samewould be true of trees, shrubs or any otherkinds of embellishments. Figure 4 represents a front lawn in thecase of a house standing some ten feet abovethe street line, and not more than twenty-fivefeet back. A common course of treatingsuch a steep grade would be to introduce aseries of two or more terraces and slopes. Figure 4. Steeply Sloping Front Yard Arranged in the Natural Style instead with formal Terraces and Slope. with the walk from door to street on astraight line, having steps to connect thedifferent terraces. The present case shows agreat improvement over the plan referredto. Instead of puttering away the strengthof the front lawn, first by cutting it into twohalves, the walk running straight from street 1887. POPULAR GARDENING. 105 to door; second, by objectionably introduc-ing the slopes in central positions, the presentslope is almost continuous and considerablyrounded from front to rear, and then a boldwalk winding naturally about some clumpsof shrubs is introduced. This is to be designated as the naturalstyle of arranging a steeply sloping frontyard, in distinction from the formal or Italianstyle. While the wallc without steps, of theformer style, must be somewhat longer, it
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