A FALL RIVER PROPERTY IN 
WHICH THE VARIOUS PORTIONS 
OF THE GARDEN WERE SEGRE¬ 
GATED ACCORDING TO THEIR 
USE—PRAY, HUBBARD & WHITE, 
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS 
Planned after the English manner of using the ground intensively, this sketch shows how a portion was given 
to each kind of garden activity and the divisions separated by shrubbery boundaries 
W ITH an inborn knowledge of garden art and land economy, 
an Englishman makes an intensive use of his ground. 
He invariably divides it, no matter how small the plot, into little 
parcels with well-established boundaries for each part. This is 
done to segregate the various portions, according to their use, 
and to create a diversified interest in his small property. The 
same principle appealed strongly to the owner of this small place, 
and it was this idea that he brought to the landscape architect 
to Americanize and rearrange to fit certain personal needs. 
The ground in front of the house is developed into a shrub¬ 
bery and tree-bounded lawn, thoroughly simple in keeping with 
the informal and semi-suburban character of a Fall River street. 
Two elm trees stand on either side of the entrance and a shrub¬ 
bery border extends along the 
entire street front of the prop¬ 
erty. This shrubbery is high 
enough that you can stand un¬ 
noticed on the lawn, and low 
enough to allow from the en¬ 
trance porch a view of the Fall 
River Harbor. 
This view is a wonderful 
asset to the property. On the 
sloping land just across the 
street crop out gray rock 
ledges overgrown with bay- 
berry, sweet fern and wild 
roses. Below is the harbor, be¬ 
yond it the checker-board,parti¬ 
colored fields of Rhode Island, 
framed by the low hills of Con¬ 
necticut, all blue and gray in 
the distance. The omission of 
the planting along the street 
would have given a broader 
and barer view of the harbor, 
but a more restricted outlook 
through the leafy frame of shrubs and 
the arching elm branches is much more 
pleasing. 
It was essential to plant, not only 
boundary plantations, but borders along the foundation walls of 
the house. This is often a difficult problem. The composition 
of such a shrubbery generally depends upon the house facade 
and must subordinate itself to the window arrangement, so that 
spreading branches will not encroach upon them and their light. 
The difficulty was eliminated here, as a balustraded and unroofed 
porch, resembling a terrace, which runs along the whole front of 
the house, allows the use of a continuous shrubbery border along 
its entire width. Japanese barberry and rugosa roses are planted 
in groups on either side of the porch steps — a familiar but always 
welcome combination. The looser habit of rugosa roses helps to 
soften the compactness of the barberry growth, and the barberry, 
in its turn, hides the leggy growth that the rugosa roses are apt 
In front of the house, a shrubbery and tree-bounded lawn. Two elms stand on either side of the entrance and a shrubbery 
border extends along the street front 
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