LANDSCAPE GARDENING FEATURE 

 Special Features in the Garden 



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If you lay out small home grounds and plant them, avoid having 

 them all look alike. Treat each place just a httle differently from 

 the others. This result can be considerably helped along by what- 

 ever additional work has to be done after the grading, lawn, drive, 

 walks and lot line plantings have been completed. 



Perennial and so-called hardy flower borders add a great deal 

 and we will take them up separately a little farther on. 



A Uttle formal garden that can be laid out in an almost endless 

 variety of designs is always attractive; then there is the Rose garden 

 and the water garden or pool which can be made quite a feature. 

 The rear of a residence can often be made to look even better than 

 the front and often is used by the owner more than any other part 

 of the grounds. A few specimen conifers are almost always in place 

 somewhere; so are pergolas, gazing globes, fountains or bird baths 

 and sun-dials. 



Rustic or concrete benches may be used; the rockery can be 

 made in endless shapes to harmonize with the surroundings ; a Summer 

 house can often be used to great advantage; a little ravine gives 

 occasion for the building of a little bridge from which one can turn 



Fig. 44. — The Formal Garden Feature. Wherever space permits the formal 



garden can be made an attractive feature. It should always be considered in the 



laying out of a showground 



