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A third example.
![[Illustration: Fig. 42. A meaningless back-yard planting, and an unnecessary drive.]](images%5Cfig042.png)
![[Illustration: Fig. 43. Suggestions for improving Fig. 42.]](images%5Cfig043.png)
The making of a landscape picture is well
illustrated in Figs. 40, 41.
The former shows a small clay field (seventy-five feet wide, and three
hundred feet deep), with a barn at the
rear. In front of the barn is a
screen of willows. The observer is looking from the dwelling-house. The
area has been plowed and seeded for a lawn. The operator has then
marked
out a devious line upon either border with a hoe handle, and all the
space between these borders has been gone over with a garden roller to
mark the area of the desired greensward.
The borders are now planted with a variety of small trees,
bushes, and
herbs. Five years later the view shown in Fig. 41 was taken.
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