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and dair}', is a. significant mark of a country home, and should, by the 

 thrift displayed, adorn that home. This yard may be paved with 

 smooth stones, or with bricks, or both, but preferably with material 

 that is on the fann. The paved space in the dooryards should be 

 no larger than the space that is actually used, for weeds grow only in 

 unused pavements. This outdoor kitchen should be furnished in accord- 

 ance with its needs by means of racks, pegs on which to hang things, and 

 benches of sturdy workmanship, made on the farm, rather than with 

 cast-off furniture from the house or cheap benches from the store. There 

 is nothing about such a dooryard that should be hidden by planting. 

 A bracket or trellis over the door of the kitchen to support a canopy of 

 flowering vines will, in fact, make a garden out of it. 



Fig. 217. THE USE of trees 



Three trees, more or less, so disposed about the house as to afford shade and to give the house its back- 

 ground and frame are all that are necessary 



PLANTING ABOUT THE HOUSE " 



In arranging the planting about the house, in general, the less that is 

 used to obtain an effect the better. Before any start is made, everything 

 should be planned. Stakes with tops of various colors may represent 

 the several shrubs and trees that have been determined on as suitable, 

 and in this way the whole plan may be marked on the ground before 

 a plant is ordered. While only a small part needs to be planted at a time, 

 the whole effect should be borne in mind until it is secured. 



In studying this effect, plantings must be considered not as they look 

 when first set out, but as they will look when mature. For example, 

 since lilac bushes grow to large size, each one should have plenty of space 



