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MANUAL OF GARDENING 



covered screen, serving as a hammock support. The lawn made 

 and the planting done, it was next necessary to lay the walks. 

 These are wholly informal affairs, made by sinking a plank ten 

 inches wide into the ground td a level with the sod. The bor- 

 der plantings of this yard are too straight and regular for the 

 most artistic results, but such was necessary in order not to 



40. The beginning of a landscape garden, 



encroach upon the central space. Yet the reader will no doubt 

 agree that this yard is much better than it could be made by 

 any system of scattered and spotted planting. Let him im- 

 agine how a glowing carpet-bed would look set down in the 

 center of this lawn! 



A third example. 



The making of a landscape picture is well illustrated in 

 Figs. 40, 41. The former shows a small clay field (seventy- 

 five feet wide, and three hundred feet deep), with a barn at 



