222 HOW TO PLAN THE HOME GROUNDS 



constructing parks for the public, in the smallest coun- 

 try towns as well as in large cities, to always strive to 

 suggest the country and a country landscape, and to 

 give opportunity for out-door sports. 



The author does not wish to be understood as intend- 

 ing, in any way, to underrate the skill necessary to prop- 



DESIGN FOE BAND STAND IN PUBLIC PARK 



erly work out the scheme of a park, nor does he, as 

 will be seen when we consider what it means to perform 

 the delicate operation of modeling a lawn on lines sug- 

 gested by the original contours, and to plant natural- 

 looking groups on the outskirts and framework of the 

 place, and about the junction of the roads and paths. 

 If we are able to always keep close to these suggestions 

 of country which should be intimately associated with 



