224 HOW TO PLAN THE HOME GROUNDS 



that they will be neither cut down or filled up, except 

 for the introduction of such evidently necessary features 

 as roads and buildings that cannot be avoided. Rather is 

 it wise to turn the attention to enriching and perfecting 

 the beauties already evident, by planting, fertilizing, and 

 cultivating on the simple lines indicated by existing con- 

 ditions, and, in addition, by taking care to always relegate 

 such evidently artificial-looking designs as flower-gar- 

 dens and colored foliage-beds to entire seclusion behind 

 walls or hedges. 



The constant endeavor, in a word, should be to help 

 Nature, and give her free and unrestrained license to 

 develop her native charms as far as the circumstances 

 and comfort of the human element will permit. There 

 should be no attempt to deceive with meretricious rock- 

 work, for example, but everywhere should appear con- 

 tinual suggestions of country. 



These remarks should be made to apply to parkways, 

 as well as parks, for there is nothing in a park that is 

 essentially different from a parkway, the latter being 

 simply a high road connecting two parks, and bordered 

 by relatively narrow strips of land on either side, 

 treated as park territory. 



