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THE GREENING PICTORIAL SYSTEM OF LANDSCAPE GARDENING 



A BEAUTIFUL PARTERRE 



The French have a beautiful word to describe a garden of 

 large size that is partitioned off or very formally patterned. 

 $uch a series of connected gardens is called a "parterre" in the 

 same sense that an assemblage of colleges is called a university. 

 In the above picture we have in the foreground a distinct garden 

 unit that is complete in itself, but still relatedly connected with 

 other garden units beyond, the whole forming a panorama of 

 varied scenery. This style of gardening is applicable only to 

 large estates or very pretentious avenues. The Greening system 

 develops all the different styles of effect that are in accord with 

 good taste in American gardens. 



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BACK-YARD TREATMENT 

 HYDRANGEA PANICULATA 



This is the back yard of an apartment-house in a good resi- 

 dence portion of the city. The heavy planting consists of Hy- 

 drangea Paniculata, and as it is a sunny exposure there is a 

 screen of vines in the background. There are two Century 

 Plants in tubs. The edging is of Nasturtium and Sweet Alys- 

 sum. Observe the window-boxes in the upper terrace. And in 

 addition to all these floral beauties there is a wide expanse of 

 lawn, which is used in common by the tenants to play games 

 and for drying clothes. Portable clothes-reels are used. 



Apartment houses are an American institution. So far 

 as I know, the idea originated in Chicago, about the time of 

 the Columbian Exposition. A building of this kind will house 

 several families, and with co-operative kitchen and cafe, to- 

 gether with furnace-heat and janitor service, it is very much 

 like a residential hotel. The idea has spread all over the 

 country until even small cities have apartment houses now. 

 They fill a certain well-defined want in our domestic economy, 

 but in them children are tabooed, which augurs ill for the future 

 of family life. Without the joyous prattle of children, life is 

 a vain, barren and empty thing. 



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