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selvei; it is thought proper to add some sag- 

 gestions in regard to the — 



PRACTICAL WAY OF DOIWG THB WORK. 



Having the house built, or its location decid- 

 ed, if there is oot on the place a natural growth 

 of timber, the ground is all plowed and smooth- 

 ly harrowed. Then the entire design is suryey- 

 ei and staksd oat. In arranging the position 

 of trees and groupa, avoid everything like geo- 

 metrical forms; a n»vice may be assisted by 

 cuttitg a quantity of bushes and sticking them 

 Hp where trees are contemplated, and viewing 

 them from diff«rent pointa of observation. 



Trees that have been raised in the uarsery 

 are better; bat, if taken from the foreat, young 

 thrifty ones are preferred, and should fcs taken 

 up with aa nuch root as possible. 



Having the trees planted, the ground shoald 

 be cultivated for two or three seasons. Flow- 

 ers and garden productions of all kinds may be 

 raised in the opea spaces; the groand being 

 plowed by a careful hand, with one horse and a 

 little corn plow. 



The Tankea nation having gained eomo no- 

 toriety in the use of the pocket kuito, it may be 

 well to add, as a word of admonition, that 

 trees shoald not be "trimmed up" too mnoh. 

 Allow them tegraw in their own natara! beauty. 

 After the trees are growing well the ground 

 should be smoothly prepared, la ths fall, and 

 thickly seeded with stjcar gias3 (poa pratensia) 

 early in the spring. It is gfnaraily b«it, not to 

 give the walks a finished construction unii! 

 after the grouad is seeded. The grsnnds slioald 

 be catered from a tide 4ireetion, asd ;i;G road 

 or walk should not be eiactiy straight; ihonjli 

 we should not depart from commcri seD^e lo 

 make it crooked. Everything' should appsar 

 natural. If there ii a tarn in a wuUc, som'- rca- 

 BOQ skould appear for it, such as curving arennd 

 groups of trees, or swells of grouaJ. Neither 

 should walks be made where there is no need 

 far them — that begin no where and end no 

 where. They may letid to the barn, orchard, 

 garden, to a sprin* o! water, or to some se- 

 qctestered shade with rsscic sv*:?, or to a ruitie 

 arbor. In deciding the tUi-ns of a walk short 

 pieces i>f cornstalks may be laid along on the 

 ground in a continuous line, ani sidja^ttd by the 

 eye. If only a grass walk is desired, little light 

 furrows may be cut along each sids with a sharp 

 spade. 



The great trauble with graveled walks is the 

 difficulty of keeping them clean. Fine knot 

 grass and white clever will work over them, 

 which gives them a slovenly appearance. It i^ 

 believed this difficulty woulc) be removed il the 

 walk was constructed with a bed of eoal ashes 

 ■nderlying the ground. Reads and walks made 

 on ascending ground, on onr soil, need gravel 

 to prevent theta trom washing. An amonnt of 

 ground can be appropriated to flowers and small 

 shrubbery, aeeordiag to i^ person'ij taste — or, 

 according to the amount of time peo[jla are 

 willing to devote to the care of such things. 



In laying out the detign of a place the cost 

 of keeping it in O'-der should always be con- 

 sidered. A Rmall place kept in good order is 

 more to be admired than a great breadth of 



tall grass. A place of any extent shflald be 

 arranged to have the principal part of the grounds 

 grazed o5 by sheep. To effect this let the honse, 

 with a small portion of adjacent ground for 

 flowers and shrubbery, be protected by a wire 

 fence, which, at a short distance, will be invisi- 

 ble; or, a wire fence may start at the road, at 

 the entrance gate, and continue along the walk, 

 or carriage road, towards the house, and finally 

 join some other fence, so as to throw the house, 

 with a small piece of adjacent ground, togetner 

 with the fruit yard and vegetable garden, into 

 the same field with the orchard, from which all 

 auimals are excluded, leaving the broad scope 

 in front of the house to be pastured. By this 

 arrangement only a small ansount of fancy 

 ground will be need to be kept mo wed. 



In By former essay such fences were recom- 

 mended AS least obstruct the view; and it was 

 suggested that if they were painted, it should be 

 with a eolor cerresponding, nearly, with the bark 

 of the surreunding trees. Some appear to re- 

 gard this as a mere arbitrary idea; but suppose 

 a charming scope of landscape to be stretched 

 before you, with no intervening obstruction to 

 the view — then suppose, all at once, a glaring 

 white picket fence is thrown up before you! 

 There it stands, in self-display, as much as to 

 say, "look at me — look at nothing beyond me." 

 A picket fence is very appropriate for a poul- 

 try yr.rd. A very appropriate fence may be 

 conjtructt-d along the highway, with a board a 

 foot wide at the bottom, and a Btrong net work 

 vvire fenc:;, threo feet wide, above. Such wire 

 'tnces are manutactured in the east, and are not 

 expensive. 



In the composition of all the things that to- 

 gether cous'atuty the hemestead, 



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is tht object, to which everything else holds a 

 .•ecoudary rcialiou. It should be seen — should 

 present au attractive feature; and wben it stands 

 back in a luxuriance of verdant scenery, it has 

 a more cheerful expression painted some rather 

 light color. But there is no reason why every 

 house should be the "whitest of the white." — 

 White looks very well; but he who thinks this 

 is the only appropriate color, i^hould draw a 

 lesson from the variety of nature. White is a 

 pretty color for flowers, and a pretty color for 

 dwellinpfs, but it does not follow that we would 

 more admire the flowers if they were all white, 

 neither are dwellings more objects of our ad- 

 miration for being all white. If all creation 

 were white we could n» longer admire the color. 

 A dwelling presents a lively expression and a 

 r.cher apjicarance with the trimmings osly 

 pain red white, and the body or ground work 

 some other light shade. A very little India red 

 mixed with white lead, makes a lively color; 

 then a very little lamp black added deepens the 

 shade. A little ehrome yellow added to white 

 gives a light straw color. Then an addition of 

 a vGtry little India red gives a soft, pale orange 



i shade, &c. In mixing paints the colors asust be 



j well ground in oil before mixing. 



I The house should present a becoming appear- 



I ance, and afford comfort and convenience to its 

 inmates; but this does not imply that it should 



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