650 TASTE AND TACT IN ARRANGING HOME AND OTHER GROLNDS. 



from the street. Instead of a large oval flower-bed 

 midway before the house, a clean stretch of lawn 

 with the flower beds towards the margins of the plat 

 is advised. In place of the present awkward walk 

 approach, others, embodying graceful curves and 



Former Plan of Grounds in St. Catherines, Ontario 



leading more directly from the street to the front 

 veranda, are recommended. To give strength to 

 this conspicuous front plat, the carriage approaches 

 should be further apart than at present, with the 

 added gain of securing pleasing curves in their 

 courses, and of materially augmenting the beauty of 

 plats B and F, as well as A. 



For plats B, C, D, the planting, largely in masses,* 

 of a considerable variety of hardy growths, is recom- 

 mended, as shown by the figure. This part of the 

 grounds lies to the northward of the home ; hence 

 the free use of hardy evergreens, such as pines, 

 spruces, arbor-vitses, junipers, is suggested here, 

 with a view to sheltering the home, as well as afford- 



ing the peculiar beauty, in winter and summer, of 

 this attractive line of growths. Seated here and 

 there on the lawn B, between the evergreens and 

 drive, would be a good place for some bold masses 

 of flowering shrubs, hardy roses, etc., set in beds 

 cut into the sward. To separate 

 plats B and C from the vegetable 

 garden, a Norway spruce hedge 

 is recommended, the same to be 

 penetrated by the garden walk, 

 about midway in its length. 



Plat E, in the carriage-turning 

 place, is merely a bit of lawn. 

 Surrounding this part at the sides, 

 front and rear (next to green- 

 house) are grass plats adorned 

 with irregular masses of shrubs 

 and hardy flowers, besides some 

 beds of regular shape for tender 

 summer flowers. 



Plat F — by the system of walks 

 indicated, by the curve brought 

 into the adjoining carriage-drive, 

 and by a pleasing arrangement of 

 deciduous and evergreen trees 

 and shrubs singly and in clumps 

 near the margins throughout, and 

 the use of some beds of rich 

 summer flowers located next to 

 the street — would assume a most 

 attractive character. Its further 

 parts, to the right, are made to 

 include some of the trees that 

 now are on the grounds, but cut 

 off by an intervening walk. That 

 which would give the plat espe- 

 cial beauty is the open grass plat 

 centrally in the area, and which 

 in bolder form is repeated in the 

 larger plat H, to the rear. 

 Plat G, including the parts between the glass- 

 houses and barn, and the main walk that extends 

 down through this portion of the grounds, is to be 

 mainly embellished with hardy flowers and shrubs 

 situated on the grass, and near the barn with ever- 

 greens. To have a walk extend from this part of 

 the garden to the barn and the rear of the house, 

 and yet to prevent the eye from catching undesir- 

 able glimpses of the back yard from the pleasure 

 grounds, an arrangement of the walk around and 

 between shrub clumps could be adopted, such as is 

 figured. 



In the large central area of lawn, marked H, we 

 have a crowning feature of the entire garden, the 



