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Mr. Parsons gained eminence as a landscape architect during the period of his superintendency of parks of New York City. He has not been less successful, however, in the treatment of private grounds.-as many people in the regions round about New York would thankfully attest. and some other people not so near the metropolis. The present little volume on the planning of the home grounds will be gratefully received. It is not prepared for the millionaire with a vast country place-for such a man, instead of reading a little book. will naturally employ a landscape artist like Mr. Parsons at the very outset, -but it is a book for the thousands who have small places and who wish to understand the way in which to lay them out and to plant them with trees and shrubbery. Mr. Parsons remarks in his preface that it is just as simple and just as difficult to lay out a small yard 25x100 feet as a gentleman's country place of many acres. The volume covers in the most compact way almost every question that a person having a house and lot would naturally raise as to grades, roads and paths, the proper kinds of trees and shrubs, the question of the treatment of fences, streams and water fronts, and the plants best adapted for general use on home grounds. A second and smaller part of the book tells of the principles of park-making, the laying out of church-yards and cemeteries of seaside lawns of city and village public squares, and of the grounds of railroad stations. - The American Monthly Review of Reviews, Volume 19

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