PLANTING A CITY YARD 167 



A plan of a city lot is given in Fig. 149. The 

 area is fifty by one hundred, and the house occu- 

 pies the greater part of the width. It is level, 

 but the surrounding land is higher, resulting in a 

 sharp terrace, three or four feet high, on the rear, 

 E D. This terrace vanishes at C on the right, but 

 extends nearly the whole length of the other 

 side, gradually diminishing as it approaches A. 

 There is a terrace two feet high extending from 

 A to B, along the front. Beyond the line E D 

 is the rear of an establishment which it is desired 

 to hide. .Since the terraces set definite borders 

 to this little place, it is desirable to plant the 

 boundaries rather heavily. If the adjoining lawns 

 were on the same level, or if the neighbors would 

 allow one area to be merged into the other by 

 pleasant slopes, the three yards might be made into 

 one picture ; but the place must remain isolated. 



There are three problems of structural plant- 

 ing in the place : to provide a cover or screen 

 at the rear ; to provide lower border masses on 

 the side terraces ; to plant next the foundations 

 of the house. Aside from these problems, the 

 grower is entitled to have a certain number of 

 specimen plants, if he has particular liking for 

 given types, but these specimens must be planted 

 iu some relation to the structural masses, and 

 not in the middle of the lawn. 



The following shrubs were actually selected and 

 planted. The place is in central New York. 



