TEXTBOOK OF LANDSCAPE GARDENING 
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-@ pleasantest scenery and most agreeable 
surroundings possible. 
Delightful scenery already exists on 
many country roads. In fact there is 
hardly a road anywhere which is not 
interesting and there are many stretches 
of extraordinary beauty. 
Should any intelligent person, pie 
erably a trained landscape architect, 
definitely set out to realize the utmost 
beauty on any given section of country 
road it would be found that much im- 
provement could be made at little 
expense. In certain places outlooks 
could be opened across fine stretches of 
scenery, vistas could be made up and 
down streams, better views could be 
prepared for farms and farm houses, 
some undesirable views could be covered 
by planting, new trees could be set 
along certain stretches of road, native 
shrubbery could be encouraged, also 
native flowers. Along with native 
trees and shrubbery would come 
native birds. 
Indeed very much could be done, 
but it is not important at this time to 
exhaust all the details of possible im- 
provement. We wish merely to point 
out the fact that the road is already 
beautiful, that it can be made more so, 
and that the great majority of men and 
women are already deeply drawn to this 
type of natural beauty. 
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