Show Common Errors to Be Avoided in Your Yom Landscape Planning In laying out grounds there is much that may be said both as to those thin things g to be done and those to be avoided To cover them all would require countless volumes However there are some very common errors that are arc usually committed not through h lack of taste but rather because e of lack of foresi planning foresight ht Following are some of the most common errors they are the things we urge you to avoid 1 1 The house should not be lo- lo located located lo located in the middle of the lot ra- ra rather rather ra rather I raI ther place it to one side and reason reasonably reasonably ably near the street I 2 Avoid setting the grade rade too his high this may result in an un- un un sight shouldered round dike of earth against the house bouse or de- de destructive destructive de destructive fillin filling around fine trees On the other hand if the grade rade is too low water may run into base base- basement basement basement ment windows s in winter when the ground is frozen 3 Do not give too much ground to entrance drive and garage ara e eI I court The garage arage need not al- al alI always al always I ways be nt at the rear of the lot lot I 4 1 Cis Cisterns oil oilI storage tanks etc should not be beI I I placed where they will cause gaps aps in to needed planting about the house I or spoil otherwise unbroken lawn areas Basement coal stora storage e should be so located that lawns need not be ruined by wagons or trucks The accessible logical location is one ble from the entrance drive and near the front of the house 6 G Avoid leaving useless row not strips of earth between foundation walks and drives that parallel Better pave solidly or else leave room for planting 7 A short entrance walk on level ground round should never be curved curved ed d unless to avoid a tree or accommodate accommodate accommodate traffic in a predominating direction nor should the walk lead up against a window or a blank logical wall space instead of its lo log log- log ical the destination destination the door 8 Do not locate areaways rs for basement windows in angles of a house ahouse planting is nearly always cheaper needed t there ere Of course it is cheap or er to light two basement rooms for one areaway but is it good economy to sacrifice worthwhile adornment 9 Do not omit doors door or windows that give access to the attractive areas of tho the grounds rounds about the house |