THE COUNTRY YARD 



path, where It opens on the high road, so that the 

 imagination travels farther over it than feet 

 can do. 



For the more usual space in a suburb or a 

 country village, a space of seventy by a hundred, 

 or thereabout, which allows room for the de- 

 tachment of the house, the next plan Is submitted. 

 It divides the territory with a fair degree of 

 economy, and insures a lawn, a formal garden, 

 several flower-beds, a few thickets, a place for 

 drying clothes, a kitchen-garden, a grape-arbor, 

 with hedges about the property and also divi- 

 ding the utilities at the back from the grounds 

 reserved for pleasure and ornament at the front. 

 In case the tract is more extensive, so that the 

 barn and vegetable patch may be retired to a 

 greater distance, they may be obscured by clus- 

 ters of low-growing trees, with, perhaps, a single 

 tall one to break their possible monotony. Trees 

 so assembled should not be trimmed or lopped, 

 except of dead or unsightly limbs; indeed, trees 

 that do not close a view are generally to be left 

 to their own devices. This scheme assumes that 

 the pleasanter prospect from the house opens 

 toward the right, across the formal garden, and 

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