8 LANDSCAPE GARDENING- 



tj^pe, will seem most in keeping with the surround- 

 ings, and because of the absence of natural plant 

 growth in the landscape, all planting features, in 

 order to harmonize, must be used in connection 

 with the building. If decorative planting is scat- 

 tered, it will destroy unity of interest by breaking 

 up the dominant features of the landscape, and 

 the charm of the rolling country, as contrasted 

 with the planting in the immediate vicinity of the 

 house, will be minimized, with a distinct loss of 

 beauty. 



A natural landscape of an entirely different 

 type is brought out to advantage by many of the 

 chateaux of France and the castles of the Rhine, 

 where the precipitous lines of the crags on which 

 they stand are repeated in the graceful upshoot of 

 the turrets and the steep and jagged pitch of the 

 roofs. 



In city building, of course, there enters a for- 

 mal element which has not been taken into consid- 

 eration in the foregoing examples. Here at once 

 occurs the differentiation of the two types of land- 

 scape architecture, the formal and the informal. 



In the city, lines are sure to be straight, rectan- 

 gular, and artificial. There is a primness and an 

 unnaturalness in the constructive lines of city 



