SHRUB PLANTING FOR A VILLAGE HOME 
(SEE PLAN NO. 4) 
GREAT deal of thought can be expended upon the arrangement 
and planting of a village lot of two or more acres. The lot that 
we have chosen as typical is about 400 by 225 feet, and the north 
line adjoins one of the residential streets of a thriving village. The lots 
on the east and west are similar large areas with fine houses, but there is 
no possibility of codperation in planting. The land slopes gently to 
the south and affords a fine view in this direction of cultivated fields and 
rolling meadows with low hills beyond, and there are no near buildings 
to mar the view. On the northeast are the buildings of a small factory 
which it will be well to hide. 
The house itself sets well back from the street, and northeast of the 
centre of the lot. Considerable grading was done about the house, but 
as a whole the natural slope of the lot has been preserved. Several large 
existing trees, especially toward the south, have been carefully saved and 
will be features in the garden treatment. More trees will be added, but 
the owner wishes his lawn to be quite open, in keeping with the broad out- 
look, though there are enclosed vistas toward the street. 
The entrance road and paths decided upon, we shall consider the 
shrubbery planting, which is the main feature of the estate. Areas 
devoted to flowering herbs might be indicated, especially among the 
shrubs, but nothing will be done toward this planting at present, as the 
owner does not care for the more elaborate garden effects, nor does he 
intend to employ a gardener. His own spare moments from a profes- 
sional life and the occasional help of a man to mow the lawn or handle 
soil will care for the shrubs and lawn when these are properly started. 
A vegetable garden is considered a necessity, so to separate it from the 
lawn it is placed in the southwest corner and screened by tall shrubs. 
As the walk reaching from it to the house is rather steep, large flat field 
stones are sunk into the turf of the lawn spaced as irregular steps. The 
area west from the house has been somewhat formally treated as a lawn 
partially enclosed to be seen from the west piazza of the house. The 
greater part of the planting is arranged in irregular masses, particularly 
about the borders of the lot and near the house itself. On the plan each 
number refers to a group of five to twenty shrubs of a kind shown on the 
planting list. On a plan as small as this it is possible only in a general 
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