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to a place make them very important factors in all home 

 landscape work. 



In many cases the relocation of walks and drives is sim- 

 ply a matter of ploughing up the old one, grading a little 

 and relocating, as a majority of these walks are made on the 

 surface of the ground without previous subsoil preparation. 

 If, however, a road-bed has been formed by excavation 

 and filling in with stones, the work will be more expensive. 



In relocating, the rules given in Chapter VI for the 

 establishment of new roads and walks will be equally 

 applicable. 



An already-established place that needs improving may 

 be likened to an unfinished picture the details of which 

 must be filled out and retouched and any defects covered 

 up, while in the new place we have but the canvas the 

 colors and other material are all new and fresh, i.e., the 

 land, the rocks, water, buildings, grass, trees, shrubs, etc. 

 The result in the first case depends largely upon how much 

 and how good is the work that has been done, and how 

 skilful the artist in adapting himself to the ideas already 

 started, and in remedying defects. In the second case the 

 results largely depend on the artist alone. 



Farm-home Decoration. 



The decoration of farm homes is a subject not often dis- 

 cussed in works on landscape gardening, but there is no 

 place so susceptible of ornamentation as the average farm, 

 and possibly no place where so little is done to improve the 

 beauty of the home surroundings. Generally there is an 

 abundance and a great variety of land, also a wealth of 

 materials in the way of trees, shrubs, and plants that may 



