ORNAMENTAL PLANTING OF TREES AND SHRUBS 109 



immediate surroundings at very little cost, making the home a 

 thing of beauty rather than a hideous collection of purely utihtarian 

 conveniences. 



The first aim in the landscape development should be toward an 

 orderly arrangement of the barns, dairies, poultry yard and other 

 features to be maintained for housing the stock and storing the 

 crops. There is beauty as well as convenience in order. With the 

 buildings located in their proper relation to each other and to the 

 house, and the walk and drive arrangement carefully planned, the 

 question of beautification is made quite simple. 



All plantings should be composed of trees and shrubs that are 

 very hardy and of easy culture, and for sentimental reasons it is well 

 to select the old standard varieties familiar to old-time farms 

 everywhere (Fig. 100). 



Among the shrubs the most widely known is the Lilac. Lilacs 

 are perfectly hardy and thrive in almost any soil and position. The 

 varieties have been greatly improved, so that kinds may now be 

 had with single or double flowers and in a wide range of color. 



The Snowball is another favorite always found with the Lilac 

 in the old-time farmyard. Other familiar kinds are the old-fashioned 

 Sweet Shrub, Golden Bell, Bridal Wreath, Japanese Quince or Fire 

 Bush, Mock Orange, Rose of Sharon and Weigelas. Add to these 

 the Hydrangea and we have a selection that covers a long period 

 of bloom. 



There is not a place where these old-fashioned and greatly loved 

 varieties may not be used to advantage as a means of ornamentation. 

 Plant them at the corners of buildings, at fence corners, at interior 

 angles, at intersections of walks and drives, and in pairs down the 

 straight walk that leads to barn and garden. 



The farm barn may have an end or side protected from the 

 stock, which may be changed from an unsightly aspect to one of 

 picturesqueness through the planting of a few hardy shrubs (Figs. 

 101, 102 and 103). 



Although the truck garden is a strictly utilitarian feature, it is 

 quite practical and not an extravagance to provide space for a small 

 flower garden between the truck garden and the house, a sort of an 

 anteroom to the strictly prosaic feature beyond. 



The flower garden should not be large; it would be an error to 

 make it so, and some of the space in the beds should be given over 



