A house of this size, standing so near the street, should be treated as if directly on the sidewalk line. Vines for the walls, boxwood or bay trees in tubs beside the steps 
privet dr box edgings for the entrance walk would be good 
The Immediate Garden Treatment of a New House 
PLANTING PLANS DESIGNED TO REMOVE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE THE RAW APPEARANCE 
OF A NEWLY FINISHED HOME—THE FLOWERS AND SHRUBS FOR VARIOUS LOCATIONS 
by Grace Tabor 
S TANDING stark and bare, on 
newly graded, stark, bare 
earth, the newly finished house 
is at once the despair as well as 
the delight of its possessor — if he 
have the gardener’s esthetic sense. 
For it needs everything at once 
— and it needs everything in the 
greatest possible hurry, unless 
the denuded earth is to go on 
being an eyesore for an unendur¬ 
able while. 
There are many quick growing 
things that will furnish a sem¬ 
blance Y clothing to a place in 
a short time, of course. But 
the real problem of the home- 
owner comes in the import¬ 
ance of his losing no time 
in establishing his permanent 
garden treatment; yet here is 
exactly where he is likely to 
lose if he is too free with the 
quick growing, soon dying 
material. All the rapid grow¬ 
ing annuals are rank growers 
too, and take up a vast 
amount of space when their 
growth is attained, thus 
crowding out any permanent 
thing planted near them save 
a tree or a sizable shrub. 
So to . accomplish really 
good results there must be 
actually two separate plans 
of action: the one, foi im- 
rene7a6/es 
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The planting plan for a house such as that shown below 
Essentially the type of dwelling for ‘‘cottage gardening.” Marigolds outlining the 
walk, vines on the trellis, vegetables and flower gardens, would be desirable 
mediate effect, with the quick 
growing things; and the other, 
for permanent landscape develop¬ 
ment, with the permanent ma¬ 
terial. These two plans may and 
undoubtedly will lap onto each 
other to a considerable degree, 
but even if they do it will still be 
wise to keep them distinct and 
separate, as plans. 
The first one to be developed, 
of course, is the one that is to 
last. Work that is to be per¬ 
manent must be settled upon 
before the work that is immediate 
may have its turn, for only 
thus will the latter keep its 
proper place, and minimize 
the risk of sacrificing any- 
of the future, even 
season, to the 
present. 
Without knowing what the 
ultimate ideal for a home 
and its surroundings is, in 
any particular case, it is 
hardly possible to say what 
the permanent plan should 
embrace, of course; but for 
the sake of clearness, I am 
going to assume the place and 
the ideal, and proceed on 
this assumption to illustrate 
the method of going about 
the immediate treatment. 
Let us suppose the house 
thing 
for a single 
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