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Title: The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent. With descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Scott, Frank J. (Frank Jesup), 1828-1919
Subjects: Landscape gardening Suburban homes Trees -- United States
Publisher: New York American Book Exchange
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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acurving walk with the main house entrance, and other walks to thekitchen entrances and carriage-house. This difference in the walksis suggestive of the greater embellishment of the latter plan in allother respects, and, with its vases, flower-beds, and more numerousgroups of shrubbery, indicates the necessity for tlie constant servicesof a gardener. Plan VIII, on the oUicr hand, witli its plain lawn,and groups of trees which require but little care, and its few plainflower-beds, may easily be taken care of by any industrious pro-prietor, before and after the hours devoted to town business—•especially if the wife will assume the care of the flowers—and ifthe lawn is in high condition, and the trees are kept growing lu.\-uriantly, the simplicity of the planting will not result in any lackof that air of elegance which most persons desire to have theiiplaces express; for it is not so much costliness and elaboratenessthat challenges the admiration of cultivated people as the uncon-
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Slreet AND GROUNDS, 165 scious grace with which a plain dress may be worn, so as to appearelegant notwithstanding its simplicity. It will be observed thatthere is no vegetable garden on either plan, but a good number ofcherry, pear, and other fruit trees, as well as an abundance ofgrapes, currants, raspberries, and strawberries are provided for.Yet in the neighborhood of the carriage-house, the ground in culti-vation under the trees may serve to produce a small quantity ofthose low vegetables which take but little room, and are wanted insmall quantities only. Supposing the walks to be laid out as shown on the plan, thefirst things to be planted are the fruit trees. Three cherry trees—say the mayduke, black tartarian, and late-duke ; seven pear trees(not dwarfs)—say one Madeleine, one Dearborns seedling, oneBloodgood, two Seckels, and two Bartletts ; two peach trees, theGeorge the Fourth or Haines early, and Crawfords early ; anda few orange-quinces near the stable, are all the fru

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