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Book Review of Home guide to lawns and landscaping

Home guide to lawns and landscaping
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The back cover says: "Here is a guide for the suburban gardener who wants to improve his grounds and maintain them properly the year-round. The book focuses specifically on lawn care and on landscaping with trees, shrubs, ground cover, and rock. The author explains how to analyze your property in terms of such visual elements as unity, scale, balance, and color, and how to plan your grounds through an understanding of various garden styles. He shows how a homesite can be divided into three areas, and each area improved by the proper use of plants and trees...."