410 THE HANDBOOK FOE PRACTICAL FARMERS 



Fig. 209. — Diagram showing how the farmstead shown 

 in Fig. 208 may be improved by plantings to ac- 

 centuate the good outlooks and to hide the bad 

 and indifferent ones. — Courtesy of College of Ag- 

 riculture, Cornell. 



purposes of the plantings to be made. In planting farm grounds, 

 let it be realized that it is the endeavor to create a picture. That 

 in this picture there are given as its elements a farm house and 



..v.^-^-' . m. Vmm^ m^ — r other buHdings — 



IWlJt^g^^^S^ ^# roads, walks, lawns 



and other more or 

 less separated ele- 

 ment s . To unite 

 these several discon- 

 nected parts into the 

 production of one 

 harmonious compo- 

 sition is the leading 

 function of the plant- 

 ings. To arrange the 

 plantings about the 

 house that the build- 

 ing may seem a natu- 

 ral outgrowth of the 

 spot; to so arrange 

 the plantings on the grounds that each and every planting may 

 seem dependent upon the presence of every other planting or 

 other element in the design, is the purpose of the planting. 

 When it can be re- 

 alized that these 

 plantings are made 

 not primarily for the 

 sake of their own in- 

 dividual beauty, but 

 more because of their 

 relationship to the 

 design as a whole, to 

 the picture about to 

 be created, the first 

 principle to guide 

 one in planting has 

 been mastered. 



The planting of 

 each and every 

 grounds is a new problem, differing in certain respects from 

 every other one. There are no definite rules then that can 

 be given to guide one in the work; no ideal plan which may 

 be drawn to serve all places; but there are a few general 



Fig. 210. — Diagram of farmstead with an orchard 

 which acts as a screen from the road. — Courtesy 

 of College of Agriculture, Cornell. 



