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Fig. 25 — One way to provide necessary turning space 28 



Fig. 26 — An attractive driveway arrangement 29 



Fig. 27 — Where a straight path must cross the lawn 30 



Fig, 28 — When the service drive joins the main entrance 30 



Fig. 29 — The turn-around can sometimes be made oval 31 



Fig. 30 — The turn-around on an axis of the house. 32 



Fig. 31 — Neighbors can often combine on a party drive 33 



Fig. 32 — Construction of four kinds of paths 34 



Fig. 33 — Construction of a flagstone walk 35 



Fig. 34 — Plan of a stepping-stone walk 35 



Fig. 35 — Two kinds of stone walk 36 



Fig. 36 — An attractive pattern for narrow brick paths 37 



Fig. 37 — The basket pattern for a brick walk 37 



Fig. 39 — The herring-bone pattern for brick walks 38 



Fig. 39 — Cross-section of water-bound macadam driveway 39 



Fig. 40 — Two types of concrete gutter for driveways 39 



Fig. 41 — Section of catch basin with removable cover 40 



Fig. 42 — Similar type of catch basin for wide drives 40 



Fig. 43 — Brick retaining wall 41 



Fig. 44— Three types of wall 42 



Fig. 45 — Diagram of quoin binder in wall 42 



Fig. 46 — Three types of ashler wall construction 43 



Fig. 47 — Section through a retaining wall 44 



Fig. 58 — A dry wall used as a retaining wall 45 



Fig. 49 — Cross-section design for a retaining wall 46 



Fig. 50 — Sectional view of a dry wall 47 



Fig. 51 — Some planting distances for hedges 48 



Fig. 52 — How a hillside can be planted 51 



Fig. 53 — The home grounds divided into three portions 52 



Fig. 54 — Two important uses of trees 54 



Fig. 55 — The trees should frame the house 55 



Fig. 56 — Plan of a corner planting 56 



Fig. 57 — An attractively planted corner 57 



Fig. 58-^^*ian of an informal border 58 



Fig. 59 — A suggestion as to foundation planting. 60 



Fig. 60 — Well planned grouping of trees along a drive 61 



Fig. 61 — Another well planned driveway 62 



Fig. 62 — Good use of trees along a branching walk 63 



Fig. 63 — Types of trees and their important uses 64 



Fig. 64 — Diagrammatic examples of tree grouping 65 



Fig. 65 — Right and wrong methods in setting a tree 66 



Fig. 66 — Plants heeled in until planting time 67 



Fig. 67 — A correctly planted tree 68 



Fig. 68 — Trees three inches in caliper should be guyed 69 



Fig. 69 — Dynamite can be used in digging holes 69 



Fig. 70 — The correct depth for planting an evergreen 70 



Fig. 71 — Method of moving large trees in Winter 71 



Fig. 72 — "Heading back" to induce bushiness 72 



Fig. 73 — Top pruning to produce an upright main trunk 73 



Fig. 74 — How to cut off a large limb 74 



Fig. 75 — Where to prune flowering shrubs 75 



Fig. 76 — Vigorous pruning induces abundant blooming 76 



Fig. 77 — Prune a hedge frequently to make it dense 77 



