THE CITY YARD 



although you may reserve patches for flowers, 

 the first aim will be to secure rich and concealing 

 greenery. Now, the effect of space can be gained 

 in narrow limits only by evasions and conceal- 

 ments. If your whole yard stands disclosed, if 

 nothing is suggested or left to fancy, if there is 

 no mystery, it must of need seem small, and its 

 charm will be that of accuracy. Our informal 

 yard will require trees or bushes tall enough to 

 break the prospect, and to that end we must plant 

 them in sinuosities, instead of right lines. Also, 

 it will be well to place the smallest near the house, 

 for it is another rule in gardening, so far as gar- 

 dening can be confined by rules, to bring the 

 smallest near, where the eye would otherwise 

 overlook them, and let the tall, strong plants 

 speak for themselves at a distance. Thus your 

 wilderness will recede in ever-heightening 

 masses, the remoter growths suggesting the edge 

 of a wood into which one might penetrate for 

 more than — well, six or eight feet. Here, then, 

 is a scheme to gain this effect: 



The yard is given over to grass, chiefly, for, 

 as there is much shade, flowers will not bloom 

 copiously; and, again, if you insist on flower-beds 

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