LANDSCAPE GARDENING 



CHAPTER I 



LANDSCAPE GARDENING AND HOME DECORATION 

 COMPARED 



THE term "landscape gardening" properly is applied 

 in the more extended meaning of the words to that larger 

 work of making and decorating extensive estates, parks, 

 etc., where distant views (landscapes) may be obtained 

 within their limits and by the work of the gardener or 

 landscape artist. 



Very little of this kind of work can be done in this country 

 because of the small areas owned by most of our peo- 

 ple, and the term "home decoration" or "home land- 

 scape gardening" will more properly apply to most of the 

 work done among us in this line. Yet when we consider 

 that outside the limits of cities and large towns there are 

 large and extended views which even the owner of the 

 smallest estate may take in or shut out in a measure at will 

 in the arrangement of his own decorative trees and shrubs, 

 the work of home decoration becomes in a true sense land- 

 scape gardening. 



We can and do to a greater or less extent include the 

 whole landscape in the decoration of all home grounds if 

 we wish to obtain the best results. There is hardly a 



