8 
PLANTING HOME GROUNDS 
THE FLOWER GARDEN. 
The flower garden should be placed in the rear or at 
the side of the house. The flower garden should be a 
place of privacy and seclusion. The hurly-burly rush of 
street traffic, with its consequent noise and dust, is not at 
all consistent with the peace and tranquility of plants and 
flowers. 
The kinds and shapes of flower gardens may be in¬ 
finite in their variety. Every home owner has his own 
tastes about flowers and the selection and arrangement of 
flowers in the garden is one phase of the beautifying of 
home grounds which may be left to each individual’s 
inclinations. 
The perennial flowers of our grandmother’s garden 
are today, as then, the most satisfactory of garden flowers. 
Utility buildings are easily transformed into a feature of the home landscape by 
a composition back ground of trees and a partial screen planting of low growing 
evergreen and deciduous trees with shrubbery and perennials. Building above in¬ 
cludes garage, laundry, clothesyard, pump house and irrigation tank; Right margin, 
elms; Left, Scotch pine; Central background, honey locust and linden; Front, scarlet 
thorn, Austrian pine, persimmon, deutzia and weigelia; with fore-setting of anchusa, 
delphinium, iris, hardy pinks and in spring tulips and daffodils. 
