52 SPRING EFFECTS ON THE LAWN. 



We Imve thus scanned hastily the charming lineaments 

 of our spring buds and flowers, but in by no means sufficient 

 detail to realize adequately their special attractions, and 

 certainly not enough to secure consideration for all the 

 varieties adapted, at this season, for adorning the lawn. 

 Scattered singly about the place, or massed each kind by 

 itself rather than mixed greatly with other plants, all 

 groups of shrubs should contain on the outskirts some of 

 these spring flowering plants. 



In a word, there is nothing more important for the 

 fullest enjoyment of the lawn than the continued presence 

 of flowers throughout all seasons of spring, summer, and 

 autumn, and certainly during no season do we revel in a 

 fuller sense of gladness in the presence of growing nature 

 than during the budding leaves and flowers of spring. 



