136 LAWN-PLANTING FOR WINTER EFFECT. 



tints of maples, liquidambars, sumac, etc., to construct the 

 lovely pictures naturally peculiar to the season. 



I am sorry to say, however, that we find the last essay 

 made in the most tentative manner. Most people who at- 

 tempt the experiment are satisfied with a scarlet maple or 

 two, or a liquidambar. It seems hardly to have entered 

 their minds that in thus combining on the lawn unrivalled 

 autumnal color they have at hand possible mass effects of 

 tlie finest character. They look with pleasure in fall at 

 glades of oak, pepperidge, and maple entwined with blood- 

 red Virginia creepers, and never think of analyzing the 

 composition of the charming effect, much less seek to develop 

 the same thing, as it were, on their lawns. It is this apathy 

 in regard to a thousand natural charms that ask for recog- 

 nition at our very doors that impels me to consider briefly 

 one department of this subject, namely, the production of 

 domestic winter landscape. I choose it because, after the 

 varied attractions of June, lawn-planting for winter effect 

 seems to me worthy of more distinct treatment than that of 

 either of the other seasons. 



A portion of the lawn which can be seen as a picture 

 through the frame made by the outline of a certain window 

 should be so planted that it will always be sure to present 

 a delightful scene during the varied changes of winter, 

 when one is necessarily kept within doors more than in 

 suramer. Nor need there be any detriment wrought to the 

 general character of the lawn by this limited operation, if 

 only a broad, systematic treatment be maintained every- 

 where on all parts of the place. 



Let us, then, look out upon our lawn, and see where and 



