RURAL AND VILLAGE 



scattering shrubs and flower-beds all over it. 

 Let it be a green space of sward as broad as 

 possible, with suggestions of restfulness about 

 it, and these it cannot have if it is so broken up 

 by shrubs and beds that all sense of breadth 

 and dignity is destroyed. One good tree on 

 the small lawn is enough, and if this is at the 

 side, so much the better, for it enables us to 

 have a larger unbroken space of sward between 

 the house and the street. Keep all shrubs well 

 to the sides of the lot, and have the beds of an- 

 nuals pretty well to the rear. Never aim to 

 make the home a show-place. Rather aim to 

 make it a beautiful place, and rest assured that 

 the charm of it will not be lost on the passer- 

 by. Among the shrubs along the sides of the 

 lot hardy flowers, like the Hollyhock, the 

 Delphinium, the Peony, the Aster, the Peren- 

 nial Phlox, and many others of stately habit 

 and profusion of bloom, can be planted with 

 fine effect. If the owners of adjoining lots 

 can, in a sense, ignore boundary lines, and so 

 arrange the shrubbery and border between 

 them that it can be planted with an eye to unity 

 of effect, charming results may be secured, 

 and the lack of harmony which so frequently 

 characterizes the two sides of the " line fence" 



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