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HOW TO MAKE HOME 
equally well in selecting and planning a building site. 
Always remember the three simple rules for landscape 
planting. If shrubs are already scattered over the lawn 
(spotty planting) they should be carefully replanted in 
masses according to the plan. This work should be done 
toward the close or at the beginning of the dormant period. 
This would mean that the planting should be done between 
March 15 and May 1st, or during the month of October, in 
a latitude of Boston. There is a difference of about six 
days for every 100 miles north or south. Before planting 
anything a plan of the grounds should be made on paper 
to a scale, i. e. % or }£ inch on paper should equal one 
foot of the land. A plan is easily made by using paper 
ruled both ways and allowing a foot of land for each line. 
First put a stake at each corner, then put a string across 
the front and measure the distance under the line. For 
this a yard stick or rule will do, but much care must be 
taken that the measure is always under the line. If a 100- 
foot tape is used a string is unnecessary. Measure all 
sides the same as the front. Thus, if the lot measured 
50 feet front by 100 feet deep, and was rectangular, the 
plan would be 12% inches by 25 inches on a scale of % inch 
to the foot. Measure in a straight line from each front 
corner of the house to the front line of the lot and to the 
side line nearest it. Make dots on the plan already drawn 
and locate the house corners. Connect the dots with a 
line; measure for the rear corners of the house in the same 
manner and for all projections. Connect the points until 
a complete ground plan is made of both the house and the 
lot. In the same manner locate any existing shrubs or 
trees that are to remain. All shrubbery as well as herba¬ 
ceous plants should be planted in spaded borders. Never 
put shrubbery in pot-holes in the lawn. Plant out the 
underpinning of the house and around the boundary lines 
to make the home a perfect picture with the house its 
central feature set in a living frame work of shrubbery. 
Where the grounds are large enough, groups of shrubbery 
planted at the corners of both the lot and building with a 
