ANDORRA NURSERIES 5 
choose to separate them from the service portion of our homes 
and from the outside world by a park-like treatment of borders 
and boundary plantings of trees and shrubs, rather than the 
high walls of brick or stone behind which our friends in other 
lands maintain their privacy. These living walls of trees and 
shrubs on border and boundary serve better to screen objection¬ 
able views, and presenting vistas across shaded lawn or meadow— 
form the most pleasant and agreeable setting for the house 
and gardens. This type of American landscape gardening is 
well defined in its essentials, the details of appropriate trees 
and shrubs and plants for the setting of the house and gardens, 
the proper types of trees for lawn and screen, or other situation 
vary slightly in each case. Results in the planting of our 
grounds must be quickly obtained, for we are not satisfied to 
wait for tedious years while tiny plants and trees grow to such 
size as will make a fitting setting for the home of grand-chil¬ 
dren—we prefer to live in the atmosphere of beautiful sur¬ 
roundings ourselves. 
The two accompanying photographs illustrate the magic 
transformation of a modern home from the bleak windswept 
scene in early Spring—so usual about the newly-built house—to 
the warmth and welcome of beautiful planting which sur¬ 
rounded the house the following Christmas, just one year after 
its completion. The charming setting of this home was obtained 
entirely by the use of Andorra trees and shrubs in large sizes. 
The cool dark green of shrubs and large shade trees make a 
beautiful effect in Summer, and in Winter the service wing on 
the one side is screened by the evergreens and their protection 
breaks the cold winds and makes the sun-porch and gardens a 
place of real enjoyment at all seasons. 
The Following Christmas, Beautiful with Its Warmth of Evergreen Planting 
