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Elementary Principles of Agriculture 



Fig. 167. A plan that brings the plants 

 into prominence. 



pictures on the land- 

 scape, whether around 

 the home or the 

 school house, we 

 should 



(A) Strive to avoid 

 sharp, straight lines; 



(B) Preserve open 

 spaces; 



(C) Plant in 

 masses, and note how 

 nature plants trees 



and shrubbery for instructive examples. (Figs. 167, 168.) 

 371. Rural Home Grounds should have such group- 

 ings of lofty trees and attractive shrubs that the sharp 

 lines of houses, barns and fences shall be softened into 

 a natural picture. The appearance of the home lot 

 should suggest more than mere shelter for man and his 

 useful animals. It should appear as though the house, 

 barns and lots were built in what was naturally an at- 

 tractive landscape. 

 Open lawns and large 

 trees are always 

 pleasing. In the 

 crowded city such 

 features may, from 

 necessity, be dis- 

 pensed with, but, 

 when the country 

 house is set in a 

 small yard, it im- 

 presses US immedi- Fi - 168 - A P lari that makes a good picture, 



whether viewed from the house or the 



ately as showing too highway. 



