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Excerpt from Home Grounds
Although we propose in the following pages to sug gest what special knowledge is necessary, and how it can be attained, and to give a few instructions that may be' found sufficient for the successful treatment Of a few acres, we shall avoid scientific disquisition, and as far as possible all technicalities which would properly be ia cluded in any complete treatise on landscape gardening.
Our Object is to discuss what can and ought to be done to make our external home surroundings attractive. And healthful, and, by implication, to define what should not be attempted within narrow boundaries. We have seen more than one city yard treated as a miniature park, with lake and grove, lawn and terrace, and, though no pains were spared, the effect was only that Of elaborate toys, of one Of which the owner said, My wife calls that place her landscape garden, but I call it'a grave for greenbacks.
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