Show TO HAVE BEAUTIFUL LAWN in small space a natural garden Is better than any formal arrangement ran gement the development of the beautiful to la the aim 0 of landscape gardening differing from gardening in its common sense in ili embracing the whole scene bout about t henhouse he house which it softens and refines in it we seek to embody our ideal of a home by collecting and combining beautiful forms forma in vegetation surfaces of ground buildings Q and walks in the lands landscape capo surrounding us every place should be a picture by itself having an individuality all its own completely harmonizing with tho homo home which it surrounds attractive to the general public and enjoyable to tile the owner we should as far as possible conform in a general way to the prevailing custom on the street as regards the uso use of fences fence between the buildings and the street lines the working part of the grounds such as the kiteli tn garden clothes yard etc should bo be brought together directly connecting with the kitchen and cellar they can thus be admirably separated from the ornamental part of the grounds by lines of shrubs shrub dr ar a vine covered lattice or wire fence in arranging our pleasure grounds wo we should provide a place conveniently accessible to the living rooms where the family can sit alt out of doors without being exposed to the gaze of the public walks are useful but not beautiful ful and should only be used where they are actually required wo we should keep keel the centers of the lawn spaces open making the plantations on oil the edges and not dot them nursery fashion all over the entire lawn we thus secure the full value of tile the lawn area and make maintenance easier we can then provide spaces for flowers preferably of a perennial nature in the foreground 0 of dur aur shrub masses and not in separate ar r scattered beds As a general thing tho the naturalistic gardening should be adopted on the small place in preference to the formal wo we are thus able to avoid straight lines creating a picture using the green grass as our canvas training framing the whole in with a well selected collection of trees and shrubs confining tho the tender and annual plants to the flower garden as they aro are costly temporary and often in bad taste when scattered promiscuously over the entire place i the house Is the main feature and a all 11 plantings must be done under the influence of its character and situation tho the views from the windows suggesting the arrangement and where the plantings should have their origin in the very nature of things no two gardens can be lust just alike a charming feature in one garden may not be allowable in another either through lack of space difference in exposure or natural incongruity |