TASTE AND TACT IN ARRANGING HOME AND OTHER 

 GROUNDS— XV. 



N THE case before us this 

 month, it is desired to 

 combine garden usefulness 

 with the largest measureof 

 garden beauty. The owner 

 is of that large class of 

 amateurs who, possessing 

 considerable skill in culti- 

 vating flowers, and living 

 where cut-flowers and plants 

 would sell well, desires some 

 income from their sale, while gratifying her love of 

 floriculture. While we derive much pleasure from 

 assisting our correspondent to secure the object de- 

 sired, we are additionally glad of an opportunity of 

 introducing an instance of ornamental gardening 

 which we hope may lead florists and nurserymen 

 generally to arrange their grounds in a handsomer 

 manner. As before intimated in this serial, those 

 who sell flowers, plants, seeds, etc., should be lead- 

 ers in setting examples of tasteful lawn and garden 

 arrangements. It is not creditable to horticulture 

 that so many instances exist in which the grounds 

 of commercial men are anything but pleasing to the 

 eye, simply because so little pains are taken to ar- 

 range, plant and care for them properly. Indeed, 

 it is not altogether a rare state of things, that of a 

 score of homes along a street, one occupied by a 

 florist is by all odds the least handsome. Let us 

 hope that florists and nurserymen generally will 

 awaken to their opportunities as public educators 

 in fine gardening, with the almost certain assurance 

 that the public will appreciate their efforts so highly 

 as to become correspondingly more liberal buyers 

 of material for embellishing their own grounds. 



Accompanying the sketch of the grounds shown in 

 Fig. 1 was the following letter :J 



Dear Sir : — In response to your offer, I enclose a 

 drawing of my home lot, which is of double width, being 

 64 feet wide and 190 deep. The house was built at the 

 extreme left, with the idea that ultimately the other 

 half of the land might be sold, there being room to build 

 another house the size of ours. Having always grown 

 plants and flowers, and for many years having had a 

 small greenhouse in connection with a former home, I 

 have concluded to undertake flower culture in a small 

 way for the pleasure and pastime it will afford myself 

 and family, and to sell any surplus to neighbors. My 

 residence here last year, when I had many outdoor flow- 

 ers, showed that there was a fair demand for cut-blooms, 

 the people coming here for them. If, therefore, you 



will 

 der i 



favor me with such a plan of the plat as will ren- 

 t handsome to the eye, as well as attractive to buy- 

 ers, and give me 

 a large area for 

 the cultivation of 

 many kinds of 

 hardy and tender 

 flowers suitable 

 for cutting, I 

 shall greatly es- 

 teem the favor. 

 If my green- 

 house were about 

 50 or 60 feet long 

 and 16 wide, it 

 would be amply 

 large. It is not 

 likely that I shall 

 ever care to ex- 

 tend the glass 

 area; still, the 

 possibility of an 

 extension might 

 be kept in mind. 

 My house fronts 

 to the west. The 

 part back of the 

 cross-line, A(Fig. 

 i), was under 

 cultivation the 

 past season. I 

 had thought that 

 the greenhouse 

 might be located 

 to the rear of the 

 long straight 

 walk, with culti- 

 vated land or a 

 lawn on both 

 sides. Still, you 

 may be able to 

 suggest some- 

 thing better. I 

 would greatly 

 enjoy having 

 some graceful 

 curves in the 

 walk, b u t fear 

 the shape of the 

 place will not 

 admit of them. 



The plan we 

 would substitute 

 is shown in Fig. 

 2, in which i is 

 the residence ; 2 

 the greenhouse, 

 the dimensions 

 being about 64 

 by 16 feet ; 3 the 

 boiler and pot- 

 Original Plan of Place. ting-shed. 



