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IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



It is on the country and suburban grounds, where one is not cramped 

 for room, where we ought to find the very best examples in the proper 

 laying out and planting of the home grounds. How often we find these 

 grounds poorly arranged with but little attention paid to artistic arrange- 

 ment in running the drives, walks and the location of yards, barnlots, 

 etc. We call our readers' attention to Figure 3, which is a fair sample 

 of the way that many of our larger rural and surburban homes are 

 planted. You will find that stiffness and precision prevail in the drivfeo 

 and the arranging of the trees. While the general arrangement is good, 

 yet as a whole it presents anything but a pleasing picture, and is not 

 artistic in any sense of the word. There is no excuse for finding grounds 

 planted out in this stiff, geometrical way. Our people should become 



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Fig:. 3. Stiff, geometrical arrangrement 

 of ruraland suburban home grounds. 



Fig:. 4. Same as Fig. 3, but more artis- 

 tically planned. 



acquainted with the idea that it is the graceful curve and the grouping 

 of trees and shrubs with large open grass plots that lend beauty to any 

 landscape. We have tried to show in Figure 4 the same grounds with 

 practically the same arrangement as Figure 3, the only change being 

 made in the laying out of the drives and the grouping of the trees, 

 ornamental shrubs, etc. Our readers can easily see at a glance which 

 place is most artistic and it costs no more to have your grounds laid out 

 in this way and it certainly adds greater beauty and increases the value 

 of the estate. 



