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TREATMENT OF RESIDENTIAL GROUNDS 



Open lawn treatment of large residential grounds. The shrubs 

 near the house foundation are Spiraea Van Houttei. The large 

 specimen trees are there " because they're there." The arrange- 

 ment is not the best, but the grove was on the grounds at the 

 time the house was erected, and the trees are too valuable to 

 destroy and too large to move safely. Accordingly all efforts 

 were directed towards increasing their individual beauty by prun- 

 ing and enriching the soil and by additional planting. It is 

 wanton waste to cut down trees that can possibly be saved. 



In the case of trees that have become diseased it is better to 

 employ a professional tree-doctor to remove the infected parts 

 and arrest further decay. Antiseptic solutions are used and all 

 cavities are filled up, pretty much in the same manner that a 

 dentist fills a tooth. The Greening Landscape Company main- 

 tains a force of expert tree-surgeons, and owners of large estates 

 are invited to correspond with us. 



Plate 113. Treatment of Re.si<lciitlal Grounds 



AN ARTISTIC DRIVEWAY 



Art is the sensible way of doing things. This driveway is 

 artistic because it gives sensible service. The carriage-turn gives 

 an approach to the front entrance and the service-drive leads to 

 the rear entrance, where the grocer, iceman and others make 

 their daily deliveries. In planning a carriage-turn nowadays the 

 ever-present automobile must be reckoned with, for it requires a 

 circle of 44 feet in diameter to turn a large car and 50 feet is 

 better. 



The two large trees in front of the house are Silver Maples 

 and the one on the left is an Oak. The vines on the building are 

 Ampelopsis Veitchii, and the shrubs near the house are Sym- 

 phoricarpos Alba, Symphoricarpos Rubra, and Berberis, which 

 do well in the shade. Those on each wing of the ground are 

 mixed shrubs in colonies. 



On a property of this character the best kind of driveway 

 is a macadam foundation. When properly built it becomes as 

 hard as cement, smooth and clean, but it is well to use granite 

 screenings for the top dressing. Limestone screenings are 

 often so soft that they wear to an impalpable powder, and 

 blow all over the yard — a fine, white dust like baking powder, 

 that soils clothes and disfigures the landscape. 



Plate 114. An Artistic Driveway 



