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land, the rocks, water, buildings, grass, trees, shrubs, etc. 

 The result in the first case depends largely upon how much 

 and how good is the work that has been done, and how 

 skilful the artist in adapting himself to the ideas already 

 started, and in remedying defects. In the second case the 

 results largely depend on the artist alone. 



Farm-home Decoration 



The decoration of farm homes is a subject not often dis- 

 cussed in works on landscape gardening, but there is no 

 place so susceptible of ornamentation as the average farm, 

 and possibly no place where so little is done to improve the 

 beauty of the home surroundings. Generally there is an 

 abundance and a great variety of land, also a wealth of 

 materials in the way of trees, shrubs, and plants that may 

 be used, and the tools, teams, and labor with which to bring 

 about the ornamental results. Fig. 65. 



Most Home Owners Attempt to Cultivate too Much 



Land 



Most of our farmers and home makers have too much 

 land, and they would in many cases grow rich faster if they 

 cultivated less land and planted the less productive places, 

 the odd bits, the rough stony fields and abrupt slopes, the 

 small irregular lots in the angles formed by roads or fence 

 lines, with trees that would be a source of beauty and in 

 time add value to the property. Such decoration would 

 be a source of pleasure to those doing the work and to all of 

 the occupants of the home, and the pleasant associations and 

 memories of the farm home, where beauty and utility are 

 thus combined, will do much to make home the dearest of 

 all places, and especially prevent the young men from leaving 

 the farm for city life. 



