CHAPTER V 



LANDSCAPING, "STIFF" AND "FREE" LESSONS FOR SMALL HOMES- 

 LESSONS ON A LARGE SCALE FROM THE WILLIAM ROCKEFELLER 



ESTATE, AND OTHERS THE USE OF VINES AND How 

 TO GROW THEM ORNAMENTAL PRUNING FUT- 

 URE FORESTRY A LUMBER FAMINE 

 TWENTY FORMULAS FOR THE 

 DESTRUCTION OF "SCALE," 

 INSECTS AND FUNGUS. 



LANDSCAPING. 



Almost everything is liable to run into "fads" and go to ex- 

 tremes. Thirty years ago much was said and written about 

 "Terracing," and quite a few people thought "to be in the fash- 

 ion" they must have the lawn "terraced." As to whether it is 

 desirable or not depends upon elevation, depth of lawn, etc. 

 There are places where the raise is abrupt with but little depth of 

 front ; here the "terrace" is the only plan. The work shown in 

 Photo 160 was of very poor taste and a needless expense. It is 

 a neat, well-built house, but on the highest point of a hill and the 

 cellar wall is two feet higher than it need have been. In order 

 to build a .narrow plateau in front they dug away the earth in 

 the lawn below. The way that the work was done makes it very 

 difficult to take care of the embankment. Then, the "stiffness" 

 of the whole arrangement is utterly objectionable unless in some 

 country place where nothing but natural scenery was ever looked 

 upon ; and even then a person would soon tire of it. The plant- 

 ing, also, has the same "stiffness." There are two cut-leaf 

 Birch, two Irish Juniper, and two and two of a number of shrubs. 



On the other hand, the "spirit-level lawn" is just as objec- 

 tionable to the eye, and an uniform inclined plane is not much 

 better. But the great misfortune is, men drift from the cob- 

 12 ( I77 ) 



