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THE TREE DOCTOR 



This photo was taken the first week in May and the lawn was 

 said to be "graded." Nine weeks afterward, it appeared as seen 

 in Photo 163 ; quite a transformation. Here was a case where 

 a terrace had to be used to get any space at all on which one 

 could comfortably stand in front of the house. But you will 

 notice that in forming the embankment all sharp points were 

 avoided, and there is an ease about it, wherever you look. 



Photo 164 

 Five weeks after Photo 163 



Notice, also, the effect of the vines. Instead of looking on a 

 great, lifeless, angular object, the eye glides from the soft green 

 of the grass to the variety of life in the vines. See this same 

 front taken again five weeks later, in Photo 164. In 169, you 

 see the right-hand panel of the railing as it appears still five 

 weeks later. See, also, the huge Caladium Esculentum grow- 

 ing in the old hollow logs to the left. If you step to the right 

 up around the house and look around the corner down to- 



