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running a wire fence around the plat, immediately back 

 of the barn, and using it as a permanent pasture, it will 

 present from the street and house the appearance of an 

 extension of the ornamental grQimds, because the grass 

 being kept closely jmstured, will look as well as if shorn 

 with the lawn mower, while the fence may be so incon- 

 spicuous as hardly to be seen a short distance off. 



By running a lane from the pasture down through the 

 center of the next section beyond, to the farm circle, lo- 

 cated in the most distant point of the drive, live stock 

 can easily be driven to any lot of the farm if desired. 



In the plan, a walk leads from the house to the right, 

 past a flower bed in the lawn, to the kitchen garden, 

 thence near the drive, with shrubs and hardy flowers in 

 places at the side, to the grove on the right. Here is a 

 comfortable arbor to afford shelter, both from sun and 

 rain. An arbor somewhat different in style from this one, 

 occupies a grass plat in the center of the rear circle. 

 Between the drive and fence of this circle, there are five 

 spaces of grass that may have beds cut in them to be 

 filled with shrubs and plants. 



A farm of any size, or a fruit and vegetable garden, 

 laid out on some such plan, may prove on this account 

 in itself a great source of pleasure to the residents of 

 the place, as well as to visitors. 



CHAPTER XXV. 



PORTICO, WINDOW, AND ROOF GARDENS. 



Many persons live in houses that have no garden plats 

 attached to them, but there is no need of their being 

 altogether deprived of the pleasure of growing plants. 

 Some of these houses have porticoes, all have windows, 

 and every building has a roof, and these having access to 

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