LANDSCAPE GARDEN SERIES 



Fig. 2 Before. A home without planting detracts from the city's beauty 



than a small place properly designed and embellished with shrubs, vines 

 and flowers? The government housing projects in various parts of the 

 country, and the many attractive living districts sponsored by industrial 

 concerns are fine examples of what can be accomplished when the small 

 home is given due consideration. Too little thought is given to our 

 smaller homes; they are built to sell as cheaply and as quickly as possi- 

 ble. Someone has aptly said that "we are passing through the carpen- 

 ters' renaissance" and surely many of the small houses built today have 

 little to recommend from the standpoint of structural beauty. 



Although the architecture of a home has much to do with adding to 

 or detracting from the beauty of a street; flowers, shrubs and trees are 

 harmonizing agencies and can be depended upon to soften bad architec- 

 tural lines and to tie the individual places together, making an attractive 

 street. Thus it is the individual home owner's duty to the city to plant 

 his place in an attractive manner in order that the street may present a 

 continuous, pleasing development of buildings and shrubbery. 



The beauty of a whole street where every home is well handled in- 

 dividually is exceeded in beauty only by one in which all of the homes 

 have been handled collectively in a community planting scheme. (See 

 III). Often in such developments the planting where the walks and 

 drives enter the property, and at the corners, is omitted along the whole 

 street, and at other times a hedge can be planted along the front of all 



