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equally well in selecting and planning a building site. 

 Always remember the three simple rules for landscape 

 planting. If shrubs are already scattered over the lawn 

 (spotty planting) they should be carefully replanted in 

 masses according to the plan. This work should be done 

 toward the close or at the beginning of the dormant period. 

 This would mean that the planting should be done between 

 March 15 and May 1st, or. during the month of October, in 

 a latitude of Boston. There is a difference of about six 

 days for every 100 miles north or south. Before planting 

 anything a plan of the grounds should be made on paper 

 to a scale, i. e. % or }£ inch on paper should equal one 

 foot of the land.. A plan is easily made by using paper 

 ruled both ways and allowing a foot of land for each line. 

 First put a stake at each corner, then put a string across 

 the front and measure the distance under the line. For 

 this a yard stick or rule will do, but much care must be 

 taken that the measure is always under the line. If a 100- 

 foot tape is used a string is unnecessary. Measure all 

 sides the same as the front. Thus, if the lot measured 

 50 feet front by 100 feet deep, and was rectangular, the 

 plan would be 12% inches by 25 inches on a scale of J^ inch 

 to the foot. Measure in a straight line from each front 

 corner of the house to the front line of the lot and to the 

 side line nearest it. Make dots on the plan already drawn 

 and locate the house corners. Connect the dots with a 

 line; measure for the rear corners of the house in the same 

 manner and for all projections. Connect the points until 

 a complete ground plan is made of both the house and the 

 lot. In the same manner locate any existing shrubs or 

 trees that are to remain. All shrubbery as well as herba- 

 ceous plants should be planted in spaded borders. Never 

 put shrubbery in pot-holes in the lawn. Plant out the 

 underpinning of the house and around the boundary lines 

 to make the home a perfect picture with the house its 

 central feature set in a living frame work of shrubbery. 

 Where the grounds are large enough, groups of shrubbery 

 planted at the corners of both the lot and building with a 



