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Title: The Canadian horticulturist (monthly), 1889
Identifier: canadianhorticu12stcauoft (find matches)
Year: [1] (s)
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Subjects: Gardening; Canadian periodicals
Publisher: St. Catharines, E. S. Leavenworth
Contributing Library: Toronto Public Library: Research and Reference Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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The Canadian Horticulturist. rear, concealing them with groups of ornamental trees, and then proceed to lay out walks, and drives and to plant trees according to some definite plan. The winter is the best time for drawing out such a plan on paper, and therefore the following remarks. To illustrate our subject we pre- sent our readers with a series of engravings, representing Ashton, the country seat of H. Maunsell Shieffelin, of Yonkers, N.Y. The plain Italian style of the house sets off to the better advantage the great import- ance of well-planned surroundings for producing elegance of effect. No division fences are observable, unless far back in the rear ; the groups of trees are a beautiful set- tingto the picture, while the closely-shaven lawn in front is an adornment too little valued by those who spade up a portion of the front grounds for the growing of annual flowers. The pathway, which too often cuts the front lawn in halves, is here made to skirt along the border, under a pleasant shade, and to approach the front door by a graceful curve. The absence of shrubbery about the verandah and sides of the house is also observable, in contrast with the vulgar custom of planting beds of shrubs and perennial flowers to grow along the sides of the house. Instead of this, the closely-shaven lawn up to the very walls is in much better taste, the shrubs being grouped in some more appropriate places. The climbers about the posts of the verandah are also worthy of our attention, for they lend a grace and charm which no archi- tectural ornament could impart. There are
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Fig. 3.—AsHTcjN ; The Residence of H. Maunsell Shiekkelin, Yonkers, N.Y.

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