THE GENERAL PLAN OR THEORY OF THE PLACE 5d 
The corner by the steps is a perennial source of bad temper. 
The lawn-mower will not touch it, and the grass has to be cut 
with a butcher-knife. If nothing else comes to hand, let a 
burdock grow in it (Fig. 1). 
48. The screening of the tennis-screen. 
The tennis-screen may be relieved by a background (Fig. 
48), and a clump of ribbon-grass or something else is out 
of the way against a post 
(Fig. 49). 
Excellent mass effects may 
be secured by cutting well- 
established plants of sumac, Ny De Ips 
ailanthus, basswood, and 1 SES CAM UN AILNS | 
other strong-growing things, 4 \ 
to the ground each year, for 
the purpose of securing the 
stout shoots. Figure 50 will 
give the hint. 
But if one has no area 
which he can make into a lawn and upon which he can plant 
such verdurous masses, what then may he do? Even then 
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49. At the bottom of the clothes-post. 
