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COW YARD.
PADDOCH.
SHED COUNT SHED.
CHICKEN RUNS.
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FLOWERS.
PRINS DRIVE PERRACE, LAWN LAWIR General plan for farmhouse grounds.
Set apart spaces for vegetable and flower gardens. Now sketch in the necessary pathways, walks and drives.
Finally consider how to secure against this background the most desirable effects by the planting of trees and shrubbery. The size of the home grounds and their location and surroundings-including climatic and other conditions-vary so widely that the problem of beautifying them is necessarily an individual one. However, experience has suggested certain general principles which are of universal value. These may be briefly stated. for General Design. -Observe the main lines of travel and, unless there should be some good reason changing, make these the basis for permanent paths and walks. Custom is very persistent and usual lines of travel will not only prove as a rule to be the most convenient, but will be difficult to change. They may result, if changed unwisely, in unsightly foot AAA Group planting. paths across the lawn. Short walks and drives of less than 100 feet should preferably be straight. If longer they may be gently curved to provide bays in which trees and shrubs may be planted. Observe carefully the outlook from all the doors and windows to determine which parts of the landscape should be retained in view and what objects should be cut off from sight by trees and shrubs.
The best practice is to confine trees and shrubs to the borders of the grounds or the lines of walks or drives. Leave the lawn lying in unbroken stretches. But such borders need not be continuous around the grounds. They should be broken here and there to preserve attractive views of the exterior landscape. Often a continuous belt of trees is desirable across the rear or at the sides of the lot to afford protection. But since the rear views may be as attractive as those toward the front, these belts may also be broken at intervals.
Great care must be taken, however, not to leave openings which will cause snow to drift in the vicinity of the house and outbuildings.
Formal arrangements of trees in straight rows are sometimes desirable to screen public highways, or as borders. But more pleasing effects can usually be produced by spacing the trees irregularly. The width of a belt of trees may properly be varied.
Let them project in some places into the interior open space and retreat, in others, almost to the limit of the grounds.
The best effects may be secured from a variety of kinds of trees.
Group each kind by itself. Vistas of the more distant landscape opening between groups of trees irregularly spaced are among the most pleasing views imaginable. A few elms, a group of oaks, or a clump of graceful birches scattered about the grounds gives character to the planting from a near view and, when seen at a distance, makes a pleasingly diversified sky-line. Shrubbery is properly placed when planted in clumps against belts of trees, in bays or corners, or when employed to screen a rough foundation wall, to soften the outlines of ABB Scattered plantations. unsightly objects or to hide them wholly from view. - Walks may properly follow the contour of the ground.
Windbreaks.
Many homes are naturally sheltered by adjacent hills or timber. But countless thousands of dwellings, school-houses, barns and other occupied buildings stand on hills, or treeless plains, such that some suitable protection is required.