HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION
5
Planning for the Home Garden
BY W. Q. HUMMKLU
University of California.
(Concluded From Last Week.)
S OME things that should always be
avoided In any planting are yet
pt such common occurrence as to de
serve special mention and emphasis.
First of all, in the way of empha
sis, the prominent lines of the good
landscape should always be curved
lines If possible, Exaggerated curves
leading nowhere are equally faulty.
Fences are to be .obliterated as
quickly and as much as possible in
the general effects. They should be
painted green, brown or dull gray and
never a color that brings them out in
bold contrast to their surroundings.
Needless to say that the flower bed
in the middle of the lawn is never
beautiful and frequently spoils com
pletely the effects of an otherwise
good planting. When this is bor
dered with bricks, stones, shells, beer
bottles, etc., frequently painted a
dazzling white, the result is hideous.
The same structure in the middle
of the parlor floor would be in just
as good taste and no more unsightly.
The conventional rockery is another
nionstrostiy of the same sort.
The proper surroundings for a
rockery are not easily secured and
nothing will save It from condemna
tion, unless it appears natural to its
surroundings. A heap of stones in the
middle of u clipped lawn can never
be excused.
The little trellis in the middle of
the lawn over which some climbing
plant is expected to climb, but us
ually does not, is another objection
able feature frequently seen. Climb
ers should never be planted except
where there is something for them to
climb upon, as porches, walls, old
trees, fences or shrubbery.
Plants with geometric forms, such
as junipers, boxes and arbor vltaes,
pruned into smooth cones, vases,
globes, etc., should find no place In
termingled with natural objects.
Plants of weeping or unusual habits
of growth should generally be avoid
ed. Lawu vases and flower containers
of all kinds are usually undesirable
and In any case are rarely as effect
ive and satisfactory as some easier
and more natural treatment.
Planning.
The location of the grounds having
been determined, the next thing is to
make some definite plan on paper.
The house, walks, drives, fences, etc.,
should be placed according to scalo,
in keeping with what has already
been stated. If possible the walks,
drives and fences should be built and
the necessary draining and grading
done in the Fall of the year. There
almost invariably occur sotno irreg
ularities, as a result of uneven set
tling of tho soil, which may be elim
inated the following Spring before
planting is done.
The next thing to do Is to locate
the trees, shrubs, etc. The location
and kind of plants should be indi
cated on the paper plan; first, the
trees, then the shrubs, followed by
tho flowers desired.
In locating these plants this state
ment should be kept constantly in
mind: "The completed planting
should represent a framed picture;
tho house Is the picture, the grass Is
the canvas and the trees and shrub
bery represent the frame." Trees
and high growing shubbery, there
fore, have no place in front of the
house, because they hlilo the "pic
ture." Streaks nud blotches in the
way of walks, flower beds, etc., have
no place in the foreground of the pic
ture because they receive the first
notice and withdraw our attention
from that which we wish to set off to
the best advantage.
There are of necessity some un
sightly objects about the house.
Barns, outbuildings, stockyards, etc.,
should be screened from direct view
from the porches and principal win
dows. At tho same time there is
often some beautiful outlying scen
ery beyond the grounds themselves,
as a river or a range of hills, a view
of which the trees and shrubs should
not shut off.
It should bo remembered too, that
the grounds are for the pleasure and
enjoyment of the people living there
and not entirely for the benefit of
tho passerby. With this in mind,
the outlook from tho - rear of the
house should bo made as beautiful
and attractive as that from the front.
The good housewife and her assist
ants will spend one-half or more of
their working hours in tho rear of
tho house and the outlook from the
kitchen and pantry should be the
most pleasant of the entire grounds.
Tig pens, manure piles, outbuildings
and perhaps even some rubbish piles
may be necessary evils about a farm
house, but they should never be vis
ible from the most used parts of the
house.
Placing of Slirnbs.
The high growing shrubs should be
placed In the rear of the border, and
the lower growing kinds reserved for
the foreground, angles and basement
lines of the house. The nurseryman's
catalogues usually indicate these
points, thus making wise selection
possible for anyone.
One should not try to plant every
thing in the catalogue, but should
confine the selection principally to
native, hardy and well-known sorts.
Instead of single specimens, three or
four plants (more when possible) of
each kind should be planted together.
Care should be taken to select shrubs
blooming at different times through
out the entire season, and not those
only which flower in the Spring
time.
Plants for shady places should be
selected with special care, and at
tention should be given to Winter
effects. A few evergreens and plants
with fruit adhering late In the season
or with some characteristic color of
bark may be selected for this pur
pose. Especial attention should be given
to the insect and disease problems.
Many plRnls, otherwise very desir
able, mnst be omitted from the list
of the average planter on account of
their susceptibility to Insects and
diseases, "ibis U perhaps the most
difficult point tor the amateur in the
selection of satisfactory plants.
Above all it should not be forgot
ten that plants become larger. Plants
two or three feet from each other
seem very wide apart at planting
time, but may be entirely too elose in
four or five years. One should never
hesitate to "thin out" if necessary.
Plants not called for In the original
plan may bo added here and there
and plants not pleasing or satisfy
ing in the plan as a whole, dug up
and replaced. Few plans made even
by professionals escape additions and
modifications as the years go by.
In conclusion it must be remem
bered that it requires time to de
velop a "plan" to the point where the
idea in the mind of the one who
planned the grounds will become ap
parent to the casual observer. But
with careful planning, a little labor,
and practice, any home can be made
beautiful surroundings at compara
tively slight expense.
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nnrl tnn in thn hrirn nf tllp cttv man
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As tho' nnrl.-nirrt Ileitis sell the fruit,
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Those who are pressed lor stor
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