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PLAN FOR A FOUR-ACRE PLACE. 



yellow shaded one.«;. Give your plants 

 deep, rich, moistsoil, well drained though, 

 and no matter how hardy people may 

 tell you they are, mulch "them well in 

 winter. 



Landscape Gardening. 



FLflN FOR FOUR ACRE FLflCE. 



The accompanying plan shows a con- 

 venient and pleasing arrangement for 

 grounds of about four acres when it is 

 desired to have a conservatory, stable 

 and vegetable garden. The possession of 

 a greenhouse means besides winter flow- 

 ers and fine foliaged plants the growing 

 of a quantity of bedding plants and the 

 making of flower beds for them in the 

 summer time. Flower beds are in noway 

 objectionable, on the contrary they may 

 be very beautiful and interesting, but the 

 spoiling the repose and beauty of the lawn 

 with them shows a lack of ajiprcciation 



of the best landscape effects. The present 

 plan provides amply for flower beds with- 

 out interfering in any way with the 

 naturalness of thelawn. The flowerbeds 

 which surround the conservatory are in- 

 tended to be enclosed with a low orna- 

 mental hedge, and I can think of nothing 

 better for the purpose than Ketinospora 

 plumosa aurea, but this will not stand 

 in any extremely cold climate such as 

 that of Chicago, where Siberian arbor 

 vita? could be used. These flower beds 

 would answer admirably also for the 

 growing of spring flowering bulbs, hya- 

 cinths, tulips, etc. 



It is a common mistake to complctelj' 

 surround the house with roads and walks, 

 a portion of which are usually unneces- 

 sary. The effect is much better if the 

 lawn sweeps unbroken to one or two 

 sides of the house. The walks and road 

 of this plan give access to every entrance 

 of the house, but still allow the grass to 

 come unbroken to two walls, which are 

 to be covered with Boston ivy (Ampe- 

 lopsis Veitchii) . 



The vegetable garden may be made the 

 most interesting place imaginable — 

 usually it is simply a field of vegetables 

 fullyexposed fromall points of the ground 

 and very often unsightly. Now, the veg- 

 etable garden should be concealed from 

 the lawn and house and this neces.sity at 

 once suggests a border or boundary 

 planting of shrubs and herbaceous plants. 

 This planting should not only hide the 

 garden but should hide its outlines, which 

 are usually rectangular. The garden 

 itself should be enclosed with a wall or 

 hedge, which should show from inside the 

 garden but never from the lawn. Cali- 

 fornia privet makes a very satisfactory 

 garden hedge, but where that is not 

 hardy, and I am sorry to say the past 

 winter has shown it to be reliably hardy 

 in only a few localities, hemlock spruce 

 can be used. Nothing makes a finer hedge 

 than this, but it is slower growing than 

 the privet, of which I have seen a perfect 

 hedge five feet high made in three seasons, 

 starting with two year old plants. 



The plan shows a convenient walk lead- 

 ing directly from the house into the gar- 

 den; a walk all around the garden, leav- 

 ing a space for a flower border between 

 the walk and the hedge or wall, also two 

 walks dividing the space reserved for 

 vegetables into three rectangular pieces 

 of equal size, on both sides of these walks 

 grapes and dwari pears are planted, and 

 small fruits can be planted on the inner 

 sides of the outer walk if desired. The 

 walks can be made of any material that 

 is convenient, and need not be expensive. 

 In one garden that I know they are made 

 of grass, that is mowed and kept as a 

 lawn would be. I know that there are 

 objections that can be urged against 

 grass walks, but Ihe owner of the garden 

 in question does not find them objection- 

 able, and they are certainly more pleas- 

 ing than gravel walks. The border be- 

 tween the walk and hedge or wall should 

 be given up entirely to flowers— hardy 

 plants should predominate, but there 

 should be liberal spaces reserved for sum- 

 mer blooming bulbs and annuals. In the 

 hardy plants each variety sh:)uld be 

 grouped and as many varieties used as 

 thought desirable, but in making a selec- 

 tion flowers suitable for cutting as well 

 as for making garden effects should be 

 used. Such bold and striking plants as 

 single hollyhocks and foxgloves should be 

 planted in decided masses, and a border 

 with eastern or southern exposure used 

 for H. P. roses. 



A vegetable garden arranged as de- 

 scribed and properh' cared for, in addi- 

 tion to being an interesting and pleasant 

 place to visit, would furnish an abundant 

 supply of cut flowers for the house, hos- 

 pital, church and friends, and I think one 

 of the keenest pleasures a garden can 

 afford is the ability to give away flowers 

 without stint. 



EXPLANATION OF PLAN 



1. 1. 1. Deciduous trees with a few 

 evergreens. 



2. Trees and specimen shrubs. 



3. Evergreens and specimen rhodo- 

 dendrons. 



4-. Sugar maple. 



5. Tulip tree. 



6. White-leaved linden. 



7. 8. 9. Beds to be planted with bed- 

 ding plants in the summer and spring- 

 flowering bulbs in the fall. 



10. Rhododendrons and evergreens. 



11. Magnolias. 



12. Wier's maple. 

 l.S. Scarlet maple. 



14 14. 14. 14. Shrubbery. 

 1."). Hardy grapes. 

 10. Dwarf pears. 



