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Книга по требованию: How to Beautify Your Home Grounds (Classic Reprint)

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Год издания: 2015
Страниц: 64 Переплет: мягкая обложка
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Excerpt from How to Beautify Your Home Grounds

How often you see a cozy little home nestling among vines, flowers, trees, and with stretches of open lawn! By itself it is only a plain little house, but the flowers and shrubs give it beauty and character, and help wonderfully to make it a home. It shows good taste and thoughtful attention, although not necessarily the expenditure of much money.

Planting is like painting a picture. The trees and shrubs are your colors. The rules for successful planting are simple and few. Plant the outer border of your place with masses of dense, rather tall-growing shrubbery, giving a distinct outline and form to your property. Keep the taller-growing plants well back, then the medium-growing, and next the low-growing at the inner edge, forming a dense rounding mass of shrubbery which gradually meets the lawn. Plant rounding masses of shrubbery in the corners, as well as along the boundary line. Avoid too many straight lines and geometrical angles. Have a number of different kinds of plants, but enough of one type in a place to produce a definite effect of rich shade, color, flower, or fruit. Use vines and shrubs, not to display their own characters, but to mask sharp lines of buildings and as a frame for distant views.

Around the house have open stretches of lawn. It is especially important to keep small yards open. A small yard, properly planted around tie outer edges, will appear larger than it really is. Don't scatter single isolated shrubs all over the lawn. Don't plant trees or flowers in the center of a snail lawn. However, on a large, spacious lawn nothing is more desirable than groups of shade trees or single specimens placed a little to one side of the house where shade is needed.

Plant climbing vines on the porches and arbors. The Dorothy Perkins Rose, Honeysuckle, and Japanese Clematis can be planted on the sane porch, giving a succession of bloom. Plant the medium and small-growing shrubs; Roses, Peonies, and Phlox in masses around the corners of the house and to hide the foundation, and in corners of the porches and curves and corners of the walks. Always select the dainty, more refined flowers for planting where they will be seen closely Put the more rank-growing flowers farther in the background.

There are many different shades of green in leaves and combinations of colors in flowers, which, when mixed, are exceedingly beautiful and interesting; while variation in bark color gives an entirely new change after t!:e leaves are off in the autumn.

A well-planted succession of growing, blooming things about a house are a never-ending source of pleasure, growing more beautiful and attractive every year.

Don't plant trees in the center of a small lawn.

Don't scatter "shoe-button" plants all over the lawn.

Don't have a round flower-bed.

Don't have useless paths, isolated pergolas, iron seats, dogs, rabbits, deer, or other imitations on the place.

Don't plant Silver Maple or Poplars unless you alternate with a good slowgrowing tree, with the intention of removing the fast-growing tree as soon as the other has developed.

Don't have terraces near the sidewalk. Grade from the house to the walk line with an even slope if possible.

Don't try to establish grass on steep banks. Plant trailing vines which will take root as they go - Honeysuckle and Dorothy Perkins Rose.

Don't plant shade trees closer than thirty feet apart.

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