94 LANDSCAPE GARDENING 



must re-design Ms problem so as to use available 

 material. He must know Ms materials so thor- 

 ougly that he runs no danger of imagining a 

 charmmg color scheme only to find that there are 

 no plants that will give the desired result, or that 

 such plants as have the required color will not 

 grow under the prescribed conditions. Necessa- 

 rily, then, the horticultural materials are more re- 

 stricted than the painter 's palette, and one realizes 

 that the gardens of Watteau never grew or could 

 grow" as he pamted them except in his imagma- 

 tion. 



Painters often use a desired color note in a 

 shadow when it is best that it be not too prominent, 

 but even this is usually denied to the landscape- 

 designer. His leaves and blossoms generally re- 

 quire sunlight, and comparativelj^ few species T^ill 

 grow in the shade. "A city that is set upon an hill 

 cannot be hid." Just so will the color errors in 

 the design be set forth in all their hideousness be- 

 cause of the bright light upon them. 



The color jDroblem of the landscape-designer is, 

 then, the combining of his materials to the best 

 advantage. His colors cannot be contrary to na- 

 ture. They are made to his hand, unalterably 

 fixed; he may choose or reject, but that is Ms only 



