PEOBLEMS 181 



sumed that all landscape work about inexpensive 

 houses will consist entirely of planting. 



Suppose a small house of six or seven rooms, 

 with a lot fifty or sixty feet wide and from one 

 hundred to two hundred feet deep, is to be land- 

 scaped. Often in the smaller cities the owners of 

 small houses keep hens, and there is frequently a 

 tiny stable or a garage at the back of the lot. So 

 far as the short-sighted owner can see, the idea is 

 entirely utilitarian, for he has allowed the immedi- 

 ate saving to his pocket-book from the poultry in- 

 come to usurp the place of the far more important 

 problem of keeping his possessions in such a sala- 

 ble condition that he can get the greatest cash 

 value for them at any time. 



Almost everybody recognizes that a fresh coat 

 of paint makes a house sell for much more than it 

 would have brought without the new paint, plus 

 the cost of the painting. Too few realize that 

 planting may do more than the paint to increase 

 the value of a building, and at a much less cost. 



If there is any planting about such a house, it 

 is generally a straggly flower-garden because the 

 woman of the house loves flowers. She thinks of 

 them, however, not in connection with the place it- 

 self, but only for their own intrinsic beauty. 



