260 ORNAMENTAL GARDENING. 



making and keeping, by such an arrangement. Let there 

 be one garden to lay out, improve and keep up, and it 

 could be done for one-half the money required for plant- 

 ing and keeping the same piece, if cut into seven gardens 

 with seven plans, and calling for seven bargains for con- 

 struction and keeping. 



If real estate owners, who in so many cases put uj) 

 rows of dwellings, would plan for having gardens of this 

 kind, the increased attractions would at once allow of 

 such an advance in rents, as could easily make up, and 

 more too, for the land and the expense of making a really 

 fine garden and caring for it. In such a case, the land- 

 lord might be the one to see the garden cared for. If 

 owned by the people who occupy them, the management 

 could devolve upon a trustee chosen by the owners, or 

 they could themselves take yearly turns at keeping. 



Figure 105 shows how three long lots of several acres 

 each, side by side, may be thrown into one, and treated 

 as a good sized joint garden, possessing many delightful 

 features. All the parts are kept up and used jointly, 

 excepting in the immediate vicinity of each house. 

 There are three arbors, one near each house, which are 

 designed for private use, as are also ample clothes-drying 

 lawns. Each proprietor has a carriage house, two of 

 tliem under one roof; each a share in a vegetable garden, 

 shown in the upper right-hand corner. 



This arrangement has much to recommend it in 

 many respects. The grounds are immeasurably finer in 

 garden effect than could be secured in working with di- 

 vided areas. There is a grove of wood at the left ; a 

 fair lakelet with drive crossing it by abridge, broad areas 

 of lawn, and an extended carriage drive ; not one of 

 which features could be well carried out on a third por- 

 tion of the whole, while by this plan such a general 

 amplitude prevails, that all the families can have abun- 

 dant room. 



