A FRONT -YARD PLANTING 



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best, or even because they are always good 

 enough for models, but because they lie in nay 

 way and illustrate what I desire to teach. We 

 will first look at a very ordinary front yard. 

 It contained no plants, except a pear tree stand- 

 ing near the corner of the house. Four years 

 later sees the yard as shown in Fig. 140. An 

 exochorda is the large bush in the very fore- 

 ground, and the porch foundation is screened 

 and a border is thereby given to the lawn. The 

 length of this planting from end to end is about 



fourteen feet, with a projection towards the 

 front on the left of ten feet. In the bay at 

 the base of this projection the planting is only 

 two feet wide, and from here it gradually swings 

 out to the steps, eight feet wide. The promi- 



