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Enlarging Boundaries: To it the Declaration of Independence refers as follows: "Abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging boundaries its boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule in these colonies."QUEBRACHO, ka-bra'ch5, the name given to several trees of different genera, but with similar qualities, indigenous to South America, valuable alike for their wood and their bark.
WITH GARDENS a sense of enclosure is important. On small lots the boundaries may be those of the property or even plantings or other pleasant features on a neighbor's property, for when I speak of boundaries I mean not those of the lot but those that limit the view. On larger grounds the boundaries to views may be well within the property lines.
Boundaries are of many kinds. Never install one that gives any suggestion of being a spite fence. Many American communities are characterized by a complete absence of fences, walls or hedges around front yards; and grounds of all houses on the street merge into one delightful park-like picture of lawns, trees and shrubbery. If you live in such a community think well before you introduce what is likely to be an incongruous note by sharply defining lot boundaries seen from the street. The mere suggestion of definition by the skill-ful use of a flowering tree, shade tree, evergreen or clumps of shrubs is the most be done and ev.en then great restraint is needed.
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