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country that is beautiful should be brought 

 into sight of the home lawn; and all mass 

 plantings should be designed with the ob- 

 ject of either helping the general composition 

 toward these outlying points, or for the pur- 

 pose of obliterating whatsoever is ugly and 

 objectionable. This open treatment is not 

 impossible, sometimes, on even very small 

 lawns. It is worth while giving long and 

 earnest thought to the possibilities of the 

 surroundings, and making the plantations of 

 the home garden in direct relation to these 

 other features. 



THE SECLUDED GARDEN 



In crowded suburban districts, where the 

 distant landscape is merely an accumulation 

 of more or less unpicturesque habitations of 

 man in the conventional form, the hap- 

 pier result is usually had by so massing the 

 plantings around the lawn as to cut off what- 

 ever abuts, and so to actually emphasise the 

 seclusion of the home. Primarily the garden 

 is, or should be, a private outdoor room, and 

 the immediate adjoinment of the house 

 ought to be designed in reference to, and in 



