CHAPTER FIVE 
LAWNS AND SHRUBBERIES 
Tous creation of a beautiful lawn is the work of 
an artist. If you have culture yourself, it will find 
shape and expression without trouble in lovely 
grass plots, and in the grouping of trees and shrubs. 
You must never get very far from nature; that is, 
you must not adopt artifice and artificial arrange- 
ments that bring you into contrast sharply with 
natural grouping. The first thing to do is to lay 
out a drive. If you have secured an old home- 
stead with trees, the drives must adjust themselves 
to whatever is in the way. Fashion just now has a 
whim for straight paths; but common sense and 
good taste place the entrance or entrances of your 
place where they will allow an approach to the 
house, very nearly as you would stroll in if there 
were no roads at all. In this way the drives would 
probably start not far from the corners, and would 
curve about your shrubs and trees; and at every 
