While it is not the intention to publish anything in this magazine that 

 is misleadng or unreliable, yet it must be remembered that the articles 

 published herein recite the experience and opinions of their writers, and this 

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Ornamentation of Home Grounds. 



AN ADDRESS AT THE 1916 ANNUAL MEETING BY CHARLES H. RAMSDELL, 

 LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT, MINNEAPOLIS. 



I intend in this address to cover some phases of home deco- 

 ration and ornamentation of grounds, which includes grad- 

 ing, the planting of appropriate trees, shrubs and vines, the 

 designing of gardens, the laying out of walks and drives, the 

 views towards the house and from the house, which are of 

 primary importance in the lay-out of any home grounds. 



The importance of grading is something which is very sel- 

 dom properly attended to. The slopes are made straight and 

 angular and run level without any attention being given to the 

 need of it, and when the work is done it is artificial and looks 

 artificial. If proper attention is given to the slopes so that we 

 have the round G slopes or curves that you find on the natural 

 hills and knolls, when the grading is completed you find that it 

 looks so natural that oftentimes it will be mistaken for a piece 

 of natural surface instead of newly graded ground. 



Then too in these days, after forty or fifty years of horticul- 

 tural work, we find in every city large numbers of poor trees or 

 trees that should be removed, those which are undersized and 

 which are badly scarred by sun-scalds and by the wind and the 

 weather. On many places, especially those that have been estab- 

 lished thirty years, we oftentimes find half the trees superfluous 

 because if the extra trees are not removed then the ones which 

 are left are made to grow out of shape and to under-develop, 

 and therefore we lose a chance to make a fine permanent tree. 

 In every city you find lines of elm trees planted fifteen or twenty 

 feet apart, specimens which are without any side branches and 

 with very little of the attractiveness which the elm should have: 



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