Show outdoor center the back yard has come to be recognized as the center tor for family outdoor living and should be so treated it should offer some use for every mender of the family and for the guests of the family a sand box and swing for the youngsters a lawn for sun bathing and tor for family games and a alne tree or two for summer shade there should be lower flower borders along the sides tor mother and an area whore where father can grow tomatoes and small vegetables A pergola or summer house serves many useful purposes and there may be room tor for au an outdoor fireplace for or picnic suppers for merdythe me only use made of the back yard was for or vegetable gardens laundry drying and ash piles the front yard was the only area that received any landscape attention and it was generally decorated with either cither two round room canna beds or two luc blue spruce family iko 1110 was strictly fill an indoor affair as contrasted to mode ot of living |