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P L A N F OQ R F A R MY A R OD.

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PLAN FOR FARM YARD,

In the planting of farm yards there seems to be a large
field for improvement in this country. Ouite frequently
one sees farmyards of srall extent or those crowded into the
highway, mis trouble naving arisen through thoughtlessness
of the needs of the farm home, and tie fract,has been overlook—
ead,— that the proper setting of the nome is of the highest
importance, The arrangement and rinishing of the site on
which the house was miilt was taken wp as an arterthought and
aA yard, wretched in plan and planting ras the result. As we
go about studying residence sites in all warts of tne country
we find that ninetv—nine out of avery hundred failures are
to *e traced to the fact that the gardener did not understand
the composition as a whole and to the lack of the ap ,reciation
of the fundamental principles of landscave frarnening. The
ohbject of ti:i8 thesis is the apvlication of the first princi-
ples of landscape gariening in the corstruection and planting
of a farm yard,

The specifications for the yard are:~

A level yard in Elbridge, Michigan, owned by Mrs.

Crosby, 10 rods by 16 rods, fronting the north, House 32,5
feet by 47.5 Peet, placed 97.5 feet from the highway and 30
feet from the west line of the yard, ard connected with the
highway vy a four foot gravel walk,

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One of the principal elenents in the formation of a
natural landscanve is open lawns, Waugh saya- "They should
be as large and as little interrupted as circumstances will
allow.*® For this reason, gsnerally speaking, nearly all of
the interior of this landscape plan was devoted to an open
lawn, which was divided by the planting of trees into a main
lawn in front and northeast of the house, aid sudordinate
lwans at the sides and rear of tne house, At the rear of the
house a tennis court was laid out on the lawn, The extreme
rear of the yard is devoted to a kitohen garden and an old
fashioned flower garden, each being 80,6 fect by 41.25 feet.

Naturalness, harmony, and variety in a landscape composi-
tion are semired by the judicious choice and arrangement of
trees and shrubs, "A building with its smooth surface and rec-
tangular lines rising abruptly out of the lawn gives a distinct
note of disharmony.* To ovefoome this and mace tie house
Boem a part of the ground, a part of the composition and to
bring the house and grounds into clesest harsony vines and
shrubs are used together in this composition, On the east
and west sides of the house, Virginia Greeper is used; on the
front piazza, clematis paniculata; and on the back piazza,
Rall's honeysuckle, Mixed shrubbery is grouped along the
walls and massed in the angles of the house,

The trees and shrmbs are selected and arranged singly
or in groups according to their conformahpility with the house
or central point of the composition. Those in tne foreground,

excernt these next to the highway and boundaries, are smajl in

Stature. Here, in order to make an op-rine for vistar ard to
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avoid abstmicting the view from the nouse, the sir.gle sieci-
nens of the trees are used, The shmibs are planted in groups

by the walk and the side fences. The trees and shrubs used

are as follows:

1~Schwedler's Maple, 2-American Elm,
3—~Red Bud. 4~Sugar Maple,
5~Japan Maple, 6—Suzar Maple,
7~Schwedler's Maple. 8-White Thorn,
9-Norway Maple. li~Sugar Maple,
12-White Dogwood, I.June Roses,
II.une Roses, III De¥tzias fssort ed),

Tae planting of the mijdle ground. 18, especially at the
east of the house, confined to the boundaries, Here, too, the
Single trees and grouped shrubs are used. Following are the

names of the trees and shmibs used in the middle ground.

10~Norway Maple, 13—Red Rud,

14—Pin Oak. 15-Red Maple,
16-Sugar Maple, 17~-American Fln,

IV. Weigelas,( assorted). V.Spireasy( assorted).

In the background, mostly large types of trees are used.
At the southeast of the yard is a group of large maples, in
vront of which are groups of lilacs. The remainder of the

trees ard shrubs used in the background are as follows:

18-Red Maple, 19—American Eln,
20—-American Elm. 21-American Elm.
2ae~American Flm. 28—Sugar Maple,

VI .Honeysciukles ,( assorted).

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IX.Lilacs, (assorted).

XI .Spireay

The kitchen and old fashioned ilovier garden are separated
from each other and tiie rest of the yard by a hedge of Japan
Quince, The flower garden is bordered by groups of mixed
shrubvery and t:.e kitchen garden by berry bushes,

The yard is surrounded ty a stone fence covered with

Virginia cre:per,

In conclusion, it must be remembered that unity, harmony,
fitness and utility, and the object of the rarmyard mst be
kept constantly in view throughout the whole work, and that
the resources and excelliences of the farmyard should be

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