THE CALL OF THE LAND 



burned, have a neat wood-house, a little 

 removed from the mansion, or, what is still 

 better, a cellar roomy enough to hold the 

 wood pile. The house will probably have a 

 special front toward the street, but all the 

 other frontings or approaches should be 

 kept with as scrupulous care as the one fac- 

 ing the street. Whatever way one looks 

 from any window in the house one should 

 see what is pleasant to the view, nothing un- 

 kempt, unsightly or dirty. 



The most essential direction for construct- 

 ing a beautiful house lawn is that it should 

 be seen at a glance, by the uninterrupted 

 green expanse of it, to be meant for a lawn, 

 not for an orchard, a flower garden or a 

 shrub patch. Do not distract 'the impres- 

 sion by scattering upon it trees, flower beds, 

 or plants. Make it free for the horse 

 mower. The area should have size some- 

 what in proportion to that of the house. It 

 should be smooth, uniform in its slope or 

 slopes, and solidly sodded with blue grass 

 and white clover. Unless the soil is rich it 

 will pay to subsoil or trench it and to put in 



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