$ iFIo(jo^p (grander) ar)d LaU)r) $ 



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HOME MAKING. 



Fig. 1574.— 



Zxq rv^HE time is come when we in 

 Canada need to pay more atten- 

 tion to the surroundings of our 

 homes, and seek to make them 

 more in accord with the principles of 

 good taste. 



Many a person will build a fine 

 house, faultless from an architectural 

 point of view, and wholly disregard the 

 setting of the same. Old ugly building 

 may be in full view,i)eautiful landscape 

 hidden, delapidated fences may surround 

 it, and a yard unkept and untidy. 



The surroundings are next in import- 

 ance to the house itself. Better a plain 



old fashioned house, with a fine lawn 

 and artful planting of trees and shrubs, 

 than a most ornate building with no 

 taste in its surroundings. - This part of 

 home making is sadly neglected with us 

 in Canada, not always from lack of 

 means, but more often from lack of taste 

 in landscape art. It is with the object 

 of overcoming this lack in our rural 

 homes, where the conditions are so 

 favorable for making beautiful homes, 

 that Prof. Bailey has written such bulle- 

 tins as No. 161 on Annual Flowers, 

 from which we make the following 

 extracts. 



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