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INDEX 



City Squares, 253. 



planting of, 254-256. 

 City Streets, 217. 



billboards, 221, 223. 



curved and angular streets, 220. 



grouping trees, 218. 



planting space in center of street, 

 219. 



space between buildings and street 

 lines, 218. 



street arrangement, 219, 220. 



views from city into country along 



streets, 220. 



Collier, Price, quotation from, 171. 

 Coloring, 47, 49. 

 Composition, 13. 

 Country, as a retreat, 23. 



definition, i. 

 Country parks, 256. 

 County parks, 258. 

 Croquet, 242. 

 Cultivation, 80. 

 Curiosity, value of, 13-15. 

 Curved roads, advantages of, 193, 194. 



Dams, comparison of locations for, 



101, 102. 



Dawson, Jackson, 68. 

 Distance, obtaining effect of, 64. 

 Drives, 132. 



combination of walk and drive, 134. 

 diversion from direct route some- 

 times allowable, 132. 

 location, 132. 

 planting along, to control view of 



house, 134. 

 staking lines of, on desired grade, 



136-138. 

 surface, 134. 

 Dynamite, 44. 



Each for all, 29. 



Engineer and landscape gardener, 103, 



104. 



Erosion, 27, 45, 93. 

 Evergreens, 48, 49. 



Farm buildings, 32. 



plan for, 173. 



planting in connection with, 173. 

 Farm forest, 176. 

 Farmer, 22, 23. 

 Farmhouse, location of, 171. 

 Farm life, 182, 183. 



importance of to nation, 170, 171. 

 Farm orchard and other features, 182. 

 Farms, 32, 170. 



features of, that are beautiful, 181. 

 Farm tools, 33. 

 Farm wood-lot : 



advantages of, 177, 178. 



need not be rectangular, 179. 



original forest growth, 178. 



pasturing, 179. 



selecting trees for, 179. 



starting with seedlings, 180, 181. 

 Ferns, 56. 

 Fertilizers, 45. 

 Flower gardens, 153. 



Italian, 156. 



location for, 155. 



subordinate to front yard, 154. 



wild, 155. 

 Flowers, 55, 56. 

 Fog, 65. 

 Forests, 36. 

 Forests along streams, management 



of, 95-97- 



Forests, destruction of, 26-29. 

 Forest preserves, 250. 



and timber, 252. 



care of, 251. 



native growth important, 250, 251. 



roads in, 252. 

 "Forest waters the Farm," quotation 



from, 36. 

 Forking, 82. 

 Fountains, 87. 

 Front yards : 



definition of, 141. 



feeling of repose, 152. 



final result, 150. 



flowers, 152. 



grading, 146-148. 



