Description of The Shedd's Front Yard in Denmark

Written by Mattie Shedd for a school composition

Our front yard is about five rods long and four rods wide. There is a walk from the front gate to the house, on each side of the walk are rows of rose bushes some twenty in number. Outside of the rose bushes are Evergreens, Pines, Spruces, Balsams, Hemlocks, Cedars, Arbor Vilia. There are four kinds of Pines, two American and two Foreign. There are two Scotch Pines, one Austrian, one yellow and four white Pines, eight in all.

There are four Spruces, five Cedars, Hemlocks and Arbor Vitiae. Out side of the Evergreens are two rows of Maple trees which are very pretty. Among the Evergreens are shrubs and rose bushes, Flowering Almond, Flowering Currants, Snow drop, Sweet-briar, running rose, Lilacs, and others which I do not know the names of. Outside of the Maples on the west are five rows of Currants and Gooseberry bushes, and in the east are five or six rows of Raspberry and Currants.

There are six or seven kinds of Currants, four of raspberry and two Gooseberry's. Next to the house are two tall Larches, which I think are the prettiest trees in the yard. If our yard is not pretty, home is pleasant any way.