. Landscape gardening. Notes and suggestions on lawns and lawn planting--laying out and arrangement of country places, large and small parks, cemetery plots, and railway-station lawns--deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs--the hardy border-bedding plants--rockwork, etc. Landscape gardening. GRANDMOTHERS GARDEN. 211 And now we may in- dicate the special points of resemblance in this design to the gi-and- niother's garden. They are to be found princi- pally in the border of plants eight feet wide that skirts the \valk and grass plat. Each angle of this grass plat is cut pflE, making a large
. Landscape gardening. Notes and suggestions on lawns and lawn planting--laying out and arrangement of country places, large and small parks, cemetery plots, and railway-station lawns--deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs--the hardy border-bedding plants--rockwork, etc. Landscape gardening. GRANDMOTHERS GARDEN. 211 And now we may in- dicate the special points of resemblance in this design to the gi-and- niother's garden. They are to be found princi- pally in the border of plants eight feet wide that skirts the \valk and grass plat. Each angle of this grass plat is cut pflE, making a large eight- sided figure with four long and four short sides. A strip of turf two feet wide is first left, and then comes the mixed skirt- ing border of hardy perennial plants, relieved against the dark green clipped wall of privet. Here, as in the gi'andmother's garden, there is plenty of color and odor scattered about in some- what promiscuous fashion, and ready to the hand for plucking or not, as the passing mood may determine. In a general way, the large- growing plants are placed at the back, beyond a row of lower habit, and next the path we. HAREBELL. (campanula tenori.). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Parsons, Samuel, 1844-1923. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons
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