THE SMALL PLACE 



a view of the Fall River harbor. This view is a 

 valuable asset to the property, for on the sloping 

 land, just across the street, steel gray rock ledges 

 are overgrown with Bayberry, Sweet Fern, and 

 wild Roses, while below is the harbor, and beyond 

 it the checker-board particolored fields of Rhode 

 Island framed in by the low hills of Connecticut, 

 all blue and gray in the distance. The omission 

 of the planting along the street would have given 

 a broader and barer view of the harbor but this 

 more restricted outlook through the leafy frame 

 of shrubs and arching elm branches is far more 

 pleasing. 



For the lawn enclosure it is essential to plant not 

 only boundary plantations but borders along the 

 house. This is often a difficult .problem. The 

 composition of such a shrubbery, while interest- 

 ing in itself, must be in keeping with the house. 

 It is necessary to take into account, also, the win- 

 dow arrangement so that spreading branches will 

 not encroach upon it. This difficulty was elimi- 

 nated here. The balustraded unroofed porch, re- 

 sembling a terrace, allows the use of a continuous 

 shrubbery border, but even then, it is necessary to 

 see that the shrubbery is not allowed to grow too 

 thick and massive. 



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