Plate 84. Front Viird All Pluu<e<l 



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SCENE IN A ROLLING COUNTRY 



This scene is in a rolling country, the heavy planting on 

 the right being a hillside dropping to a valley in the middle 

 ground, whilst back of the hill is a creek. The slope from the 

 crest of the hill to the water's edge is very precipitous, and to 

 facilitate travel a very simple flight of stone steps is used, a broad 

 landing being placed about halfway up, where a wide suture 

 gives room for a summer-house. 



The valley itself winds in a disappearing curve that gives 

 a very charming vista. The borders are planted very heavily 

 with shrubs and a few hardy perennials, prominent in the fore- 

 ground being Hemerocallis flava. On the left is a bank of 

 Spiraea Van Houttei and a Wier's Cut-Leaved Maple. The trees 

 in the background are Oaks. This is one of the prettiest pic- 

 tures in this book. The scene possesses rare picturesque beauty 

 and the treatment has enhanced the effect. Note the open lawn 

 treatment. 



FRONT YARD ALL PLANTED 



An Irish gardener, in describing a yard to me, explained that 

 the front lawn was all in the back. The above picture illustrates 

 such a place. It is a large house on a small city property and 

 the front lawn is so ridiculously small that it is an evident dis- 

 proportion. There must be some planting anyway to screen the 

 porte-cochere, why not plant the whole of that small space and 

 make the house look like a little woodsy retreat? It was done 

 accordingly, and the treatment found very effective. The shrubs 

 used are Viburnum, Barberry, Dogwood. Spiraea and Weigelia. 

 The trees are Locust and Ailantus, the latter variously called 

 Chinese Sumac, Celestial Tree and Tree of Heaven. It is very 

 fast growing and thrives under the hardest conditions — even in 

 factory districts, where the soot and smoke and gas kill off all 

 other trees, the Ailantus does well. The pistillate trees exhale 

 a rather disagreeable odor and, when planted near the house, it 

 is better to use the male trees. 



