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H marks a clniin> of yucca. G is a cabin, of wliicli T will speak 

 later. From (} to F is au irregular border, about six feet wide, 

 contaiuin*^- barberries, fors^'tliias, Avild elder, and otlier bushes. 

 ]j E is a screen of Russian mulberry, setting- otT the clothes yard 

 from the front lawn. Near the back porch, at the end of the 

 screen, is an arbor coyered with wild grapes, making a playhouse 

 for the children. A clump of lilacs stands at A. At B is a vine- 

 covered screen, serving as a hammock support. The lawn made 

 and the planting done, it was next necessary to lay the walks. 

 These are wholly informal afPairs, made by sinking a plank ten 



169 —A newly made landscape garden, ready for the border planting. 



inches wide into the ground to a level with the sod. The border 

 plantings of this yard are too straight and regular for the most 

 artistic results, but this was necessary in order not to encroach 

 upon the central space. Yet the reader will no doubt agree that 

 this vard is much better than it could be made bv any system 

 of scattered and spotted planting. Let him imagine how a glow- 

 ing carpet-bed would look set down in the center of this lawn. 



The cabin which stands at (\ in Fig. 105 is shown in perspec- 

 tive in Figs. 166 and 167. This is a rustic bark-covered structure 

 which was built to add picturescjueness to the area. The front 

 view, Fig. 166, shows the use of the two best arbor vines yet iii- 



