HOW TO ADORN HOME GROUNDS. 
plants in masses around the house or in connection with the shrub- 
beries will be a desirable addition which may be made in perfect 
harmony with the rest of the work. 
Personally, I must confess a great dislike to some of the modern 
uses of foliage and other plants in what wouldin fireworks be 
styled “set pieces,” notwithstanding the fact that I have recently 
seen in reputable gardening journals directions for constructing 
on the lawn a full rigged sloop, and alsoa floral sawbuck and log 
of wood; though, perhaps, an inborn antipathy that I possess to 
the last named articles may prejudice me against them,even when 
veiled with flowers. 
But I fear some may say, “You are firing over our heads, and talk- 
ing of these things on a scale much too large for us to undertake.” 
I would reply, that my endeavor has been to bring out briefly the 
principles of art as applied to landscape work, that each may select 
the point which may be of the most immediate benefit to him and 
also, as I have already hinted, form an ideal towards which all his 
labors may tend; so,if this coming season there be only a group of 
evergreens set out ora vine or two transplanted from the woods, 
it may be done after due consideration of final results and witha 
proper comprehension of the capabilities of the place. 
Thereare other lines ofthought 
which naturally spring from our 
subject, especially in connection 
with organized work for village 
improvements, cemeteries and 
parks and play grounds, all of ~ 
~ | which havea reflex influence, at 
3 least,on our homes and home 
grounds, but we cannot consider 
: them at this time. 
The drawings which I place 
before you were not prepared to 
show the only way and, perhaps, 
not even the best way of treat- 
“> ing the tracts thereon shown, 
but principally to give the meth- 
ods of preparing designs suchas I have suggested. So I will close 
by a brief explanation of the plans. 
In all of them the star-shaped characters represent evergreens, 
the masses shaded with dots represent low shrubs which will not 
grow to sucha height as to prevent our looking over them, while 
those shaded with parallel lines indicate shrubs of larger growth, 
which in the center or at the back of the groups may develop al- 
most into small trees. The other characters show the location of 
deciduous trees, single or in groups, as the case may be. The dot- 
ted lines show the lines of sight, or vistas, before mentioned which 
must be kept free from all obstructions. 
