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

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... er of your place with masses of dense, ratl.er 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 geom.etrical 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.