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may be carried from the porch or veranda to any spot on so 

 small a place. The planting on the walks directly fronting 

 the summer-house should be made specially attractive by 

 the employment of choice and dwarf trees and shrubs. 

 The simple design of using a summer-house at all, has been 

 to increase, Avithin safe limits, the pictur- 

 esque effect of the place, and to lend j 

 that portion of the scene a cosey, home- 

 like aspect. Indeed, we have sought to 

 give the entire place a similar 

 natural appearance. Good lawn- 

 planting should make it look, 

 not as if it had been constructed 

 in the ordinary sense of the term, 

 but as if it had 

 grown there, out of 

 the special needs 

 of the plants and 

 of those expect- 

 ing to enjoy them. 

 Please note that 

 we make most 

 prominent the 

 necessities of the 

 plant. They must 

 receive first atten- 

 tion, when the 

 best effects will follow in due course. Landscape archi- 

 tects are, perhaps, liable to fall into the habit of regard- 

 ing plants as they would bricks or stones. An edifice 

 of landscape architecture cannot be erected exactly as one 



A STUDY FOR LAWN-PLANTING. 



