CHAPTEK V. 



LAYING OUT THE GROUNDS. 



Much depends on a plan. Some plant in a haphaz- 

 ard way and if they find a space stick in a tree and there 

 is no system whatever. 



You need a plan for the front yard as well as when 

 you built your house. We can give no definite rules or 

 formulate any definite plans; for in farm adornment 

 you do not want to run everything through the same set 

 of molds. You want diversity and to have no tAVO 

 grounds exactly alike. 



This subject of laying out grounds is a broad one and 

 would make a book of itself. In fact a good many 

 books have already been published on this theme. 



S. Parsons, formerly sui3erintendent of Central Park, 

 j^ew York, has lately written a work, which will give 

 you some valuable hints. But it is better adapted to 

 the east than to the monotonous west. Remember, how- 

 ever, that many things recommended, though they do 

 well in the east, are worthless in the west. The De- 

 partment of Agriculture has lately published Bulletin 

 'No, 185, ^'Beautifying the Home Grounds." Send for 



