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TREES, SHRUBS AND PLANTS 



PLANTING 



Very ordinary looking buildings can be made attractive and homelike 

 if the planting is properly done. It may be said that the less prominent 

 the architectural features of a place, the greater the relative importance 

 of the plantings. Hence it is very important that considerable attention 

 be given to the planting of the ordinary farm house. 



Functions of Planting. Before any successful attempt may be made 

 in this line, one must first inquire as to the functions or 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 other buildings, roads, walks, 

 lawns and other more or less separated elements. To unite these several 

 disconnected parts into the production of one harmonious composition 

 is the leading function of the plantings. To arrange the plantings about 



Farm buildings may be made to harmonize with the home grounds 

 by appropriate planting, 



the house that the building may seem a natural 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 

 realized that these plantings are made not primarily for the sake of their 

 own individual 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. 



