56 HAND-BOOK OF PRACTICAL 



Landscape or Home Adornment. 



Dipping into my portfolio a few days since, and looking over 

 sketches of plans that I had made for various gardens, it 

 occurred to me that perhaps some of these skeleton plans might 

 be of use in communicating ideas for working up some new 

 place about to be created by a reader of rural art, and therefore 

 I have transcribed and here offer two of them. 



As the style of the house, architecturally, as well as the 

 association of the neighboring lots, has much to do with the kind 

 of trees to be planted, I have omitted any detail, because such 

 detail would be of little or no avail. I will merely say that if 

 the house is a square character, with a flat roof and standing on 

 nearly level land, then the prevailing character of the trees 

 should be of a round-headed habit; but if the house is of a 

 pointed gothic, or with many broken yet harmonious lines, and 

 its location on some elevated position, then spiral and pointed 

 trees should be largely introduced, and especially near the 

 house. 



This was designed for a lot the elevation of which at the house 

 is some six feet or more above the grade at the public street, and 

 the house situated about two hundred and fifty feet back there- 

 from. 



The owner of this desired as few paths and roads as could be, 

 and meet the actual daily travel demand. Neither did he want 

 provision for many flower-beds, as he only kept one man to care 

 for horses, garden and all work. The beds next the public road 

 are designed to be planted with flowering shrubs, in order to 

 break a little the lawn from open exposure. So the bed on the 

 right of entrance footpath is to be planted with shrubs, and also 

 that where the carriage-road comes near the boundary to the left. 



