CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER i, 1896. 



No. 96. 



THE HOME OF U D. BSHLKMAN. FRESNO, CAL 



Landscape Gardening. 



MISS BSfllBMflN'S RESIDENCE, MINNEWflWR 

 VINBYflRD, FRBSNO, CflLIFORNIfl. 



Ten years ago this place was simply a 

 Injuse set in the drifting sand, but as you 

 will see in the photograph sent to you 

 [and from which our illustration has been 

 engraved —Ed.] sand need not deter any- 

 one who loves his home and is willing to 

 apply himself to beautify it, from growing 

 trees and shrubs and vines, and tranform- 

 ing a desert into an Eden. I had some of 

 the sand removed from about the house 

 and the garden and four feet deep of good 



red soil hauled in and scrapings from an 

 old corral mixed in with it, also some 

 sharp sand from the ditch was added to 

 keep the red land from baking. That is 

 all the preparation the ground had. 



You will observe the luxuriance of the 

 vines. At the comer alongside of the 

 steps, low down, is English ivy. Next 

 comes a prairie rose that I got under the 

 name of Prairie Belle, then comes the 

 light lavender wistaria, on the comer is a 

 golden-netted honeysuckle, then a few wal- 

 nut leaves from a plant that grew up 

 without aid and is cut down every year 

 to the ground, then comes two roses — 

 Waltham Queen and Devoniensis, and 



after them come a plant of Solanum j'as- 

 minoides. a Gold of Ophir rose, two more 

 solanums, then the pathway, and beyond 

 it the light blue Plumbago Capensis, then 

 another plant of solanum; between the 

 awnings is another golden netted honey- 

 suckle, and next to it the white blooming 

 Chinese wistaria. Further around come 

 three Marechal Neil ro.ses and a climbing 

 La France rose, then three Banksian 

 roses take up the end of the side of the 

 house. 1 am budding other kinds of roses 

 on the Banksians and find they do nicely. 

 The tank house at the end of the residence 

 is also covered with vines; on it I have 

 Clematis crispa and eastern grape vines. 



