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There is uo excuse for this. There are always men fitted 

 to take charge of such work to be had for moderate sal- 

 aries, who, with the free labor of the inmates of the in- 

 stitutions, many of whom would like the work, could 

 produce results that would add vastly to the comfort and 

 health of the inmates, to say nothiug of the saving to the 

 county or State." 



Institutions of this character usually embrace a consid- 

 erable extent of farm lands. In some cases these may, 

 with good effect, be laid out something as shown in fig- 

 ure 107, which, while allowing the land to be utilized for 

 garden and farm purposes may be laid out with reference 

 to landscape garden effects. I recently made plans for 

 laying out the grounds of a County Poor and Insane Asy- 

 lum, the large buildings of which stand elevated some six 

 hundred feet from the highway. The land between the 

 buildings and the street was the best on the farm for 

 gardening purposes, and had for many years been de- 

 voted to vegetable growing. In the new plan, while 

 drives and walks were j^rovided for through the front 

 portion, these were so arranged as to leave several large 

 areas in this front part for garden crops. Between the 

 drives and these plats, liberal breadths about thirty-five 

 feet wide are to be in grass, and kept nicely mowed as 

 well as embellished with trees, shrubs, etc. On the 

 whole it is planned for having about as much of the 

 front devoted to vegetables as to ornamental gardening, 

 and the former, so long as the garden is well kept up, 

 detracts very little from the ornamental effect of the place, 

 while practical minded tax-payers enjoy the combination 

 and say it looks better thus. 



In the great hotel building enterprises of the day, 

 there is often a good opportunity to devote a part of the 

 vast outlay to rendering them attractive by introducing 

 some garden features. Where it is possible to embrace a 

 small garden area on the ground, this would be the best 



