PRACTICAL BOOK OF GARDEN ARCHITECTURE 



only about twelve dollars a year, or one dollar a 

 month, for generously lighting a, big country house, 

 with its grounds and its out-buildings. 



The subject of providing inexpensive and pic- 

 turesque lanterns for yards and stables, however, 

 need not depend upon the installation of extensive 

 plants ; or even the simplest of apparatus for home- 

 made gas and electricity. The simplest form of 

 steady-burning kerosene lamp, set within a lantern 

 of good type, and with a good reflector, is within the 

 reach of every farm owner and renter. A pictu- 

 resque setting will cost no more than a lantern posi- 

 tion carelessly selected. An ugly post set close be- 

 side the driveway, at a dark turn in the garden, 

 leading to carriage sheds and stables, will doubtless 

 give just as satisfactory results in the mere form 

 of illuminating as the one set within a clump of 

 flowering shrubs or evergreen hedges or dwarf 

 spruce trees, but there will be no comparison in the 

 decorative value. A group of native cedar trees, 

 and the little pines that may be transplanted from 

 farm wood-lots and planted along the home drive- 

 ways, and grouped about the entrance-ways to yards 

 and gardens, will add much to the home value from a 

 decorative point of view, and these beauty spots win 

 prove ideal places for screening the rustic post that 

 supports the garden lantern. 



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