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TREES, SHRUBS AND PLANTS 



A typically ill-arranged home grounds. The front lawn cluttered by meaningless 

 plantings. A good opportunity wasted. 



sloping gradually away from it on all sides. On small lawns, the grades 

 may be straight but as the extent of the lawn increases, they should assume 

 the more graceful effect of a slightly rolling or waving surface. The use 

 of terraces should usually be avoided as they are expensive to construct 

 and to maintain and are conducive to a very formal effect. 



A properly arranged home grounds. A simple, harmoniously designed farm house, 



situated well back from the road on a slight knoll, with a wide, unbroken 



front lawn framed along the back and boundaries with trees. 



