. Fruits, vegetables and flowers, a non-technical manual for their culture. ishment as well should be taken from the place itself and itsenvironment if it is to be in harmony with its site and become whatwe call charming. In the plan, considerations of convenience rule, but beauty may beserved also. The paths, which are not in themselves things of beauty,however well constructed they may be, should if possible be kept out ofthe center of the picture, and should not divide the open lawn more thannecessary. They should pass from house to road toward the side of great-est travel, which satisfies
. Fruits, vegetables and flowers, a non-technical manual for their culture. ishment as well should be taken from the place itself and itsenvironment if it is to be in harmony with its site and become whatwe call charming. In the plan, considerations of convenience rule, but beauty may beserved also. The paths, which are not in themselves things of beauty,however well constructed they may be, should if possible be kept out ofthe center of the picture, and should not divide the open lawn more thannecessary. They should pass from house to road toward the side of great-est travel, which satisfies the consideration of convenience while alsocreating a graceful curve in course of the path and leaving unbroken thecentral area. Do not interrupt any path by a flower bed, flag pole orfountain, except in pleasure gardens, and do not cause its course to becomecircuitous and tiresome in order merely to introduce curves. Where thedistance is less than fifty feet, introduce no deviation from a perfectlystraight course. Walks should not be lined by ribbons of flower beds, but. ArcbiUK-t, D Knlckcrbacker, F. A. I. A. 186 BEAUTIFYING HOME GROUNDS 187 a few good specimens or a group of bushes or a tree may properly stand inthe bend of a path. Lawn Planting.—The lawn also should serve the considerations ofpracticability with beauty. It should therefore be rather open andunbroken. It should be somewhat enclosed by a frame of shrubbery, butit must not, without defeating both considerations, be planted all overwith trees and bushes standing alone. This is a spotty, not effectiveuse of material and is hard to maintain. Arrange the bushes—they maybe wild ones taken from the Avoodside, flowering kinds from the nursery-man, or both—planted in groups together, in bordering beds at sides of ??- #V kl\-\c ?- -4^ W m A- A* ^-4 fe ?%-^?\fr*/l*- -^ ft ^?# A Desirable Method of Planting Daffodils, Showing the Bulbs Before Covering. the lawn area. Such a bed should be dug over, no grass shou
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