TREES. SHRUBS AND PLANTS 



Masses of hardy shrubs about the foundation of the house tend to 

 harmonize it with its site. 



GENERAL DIVISIONS 



An ideal landscape development of the home grounds involves a study 

 of the general arrangement of the various divisions of the grounds to 

 make them as serviceable and livable as possible. For example, there 

 should be a service division for performing the necessary but often un- 

 sightly functions of a dwelling; a place for the ingress and storing of 

 supplies and the egress of wastes; a lawn for the drying of clothes, a 

 vegetable garden and places for any other such desirable purposes as the 

 amount of available space will permit. This division should be designed 

 to perform these functions most conveniently and to be maintained in a 

 most tidy manner. It has been said that the typical American style of 

 development about the home grounds consists in maintaining a "Queen 

 Anne front and a Mary Ann back/' This typical unsightly appearance 

 of many back yards is largely due to an arrangement of the service division 

 that does not conveniently and thoroughly serve these necessary functions. 



The entrance division of the property usually includes the front lawn 

 and entrance walks and generally is that portion of the property by which 

 the public receives its impression of the entire place. The walks should 

 be apparently direct and convenient while the appearance of the division, 

 as a whole, should be trim and tidy, simple, dignified, hospitable and har- 

 monious. Often there may well be other divisions, as a living division 

 where the family may enjoy the privacy of family life out-of-doors without 



