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and ill order to secure a greater breadth of lawn, the 

 house is placed at one side of the centre of the grounds. 

 The drive, d, in the design is made to turn around a 

 group of flower beds of fanciful pattern; but this may be 

 replaced by a single circle, planted as suggested in the 

 next chapter, or by a group of ornamental evergreen or 

 other shrubs. In this design the croquet ground is at c, 

 and the grape arbor, G a, is used to shut out the view 

 of the vegetable grounds from the street. A row of 

 closely planted evergreens at h serves to break the force 

 of the winds. The suggestions as to the other details in 

 the preceding plan (fig. 6) apply to this also. 



CHAPTER IX. 



PLANTING OF LAWNS AND FLOWER BEDS. 



The subject of lawn planting, including the proper 

 setting and grouping of trees and shrubs, and their most 

 effective disposal, is too extended for the scope of this 

 book. These matters belong to works upon landscape 

 gardening, and are ably treated in those by Downing, 

 Kemp, Weidenmann, Scott, and others. But the plant- 

 ing of flower beds comes properly within our limits. The 

 old-fashioned mixed borders four or six feet wide alons: 

 the walks of the fruit or vegetable garden, were usually 

 planted with hardy herbaceous plants, the tall growing at 

 the back, with the lower growing sorts in front. These, 

 when there was a good collection, gave a bloom of varied 

 color throughout the entire growing season. But the 

 more modern style of flower borders has quite displaced 

 such collections, and they are now but little seen, unless 

 in very old gardens, or in botanical collections. Then, 



