PLANTATIONS 



IN the minds of many, planting trees and shrubs 

 forms the only part of the equipment of a country 

 place that requires special knowledge and skill, all 

 else being quite ^^ithin the range of the ordinary unin- 

 formed citizen who has not even thought it worth while 

 to inform himself of the peculiarities of his own grounds, 

 much less to seek to teach himself some of the principles 

 of arrangement that should nearly always govern the 

 general treatment of the actual, though perhaps small, 

 surface of the \sLvm. of his place. 



If we endeavor to realize at all the true functions of 

 the different parts of our home grounds, or village lots, 

 we vdW come to make in our minds three important divis- 

 ions of the work we propose to undertake — namely, the 

 house, the la\^Ti, and the trees and shrubs — and which 

 may impart the most to the beauty and usefulness of the 

 place it will be difficult to say. It is safe to say, how- 

 ever, that the variety of beautiful effects pertaining to 

 the trees and shrubs should occupy no minor place in the 

 scheme of the adornment of the grounds. The general 

 mass may, at first glance, convey a vague impression of 

 charming colors and varying lights and shadows, relieved 

 against the greensward, but as the eye continues to 



