IV 



PLANTING 



A THORorGH knowledge of plant materials and 

 their jDOSsible uses in landscape work is of great 

 importance to the landscape-designer, inasmuch 

 as most of the effects he desires to create, in the 

 working out of any problem where plants are em- 

 ployed, depend upon the intelligent use of these 

 plant materials. 



In a large way topography affects the design 

 scheme, and this topography may be taken without 

 change, as it occurs in the problem, or it may be 

 altered to suit the requirements better. This al- 

 teration will depend upon the extent of the 

 scheme at hand and the amount of money to be laid 

 out upon it. 



Planting is often used topographically to give 

 effects of height and to emphasize or obscure ele- 

 vations. In the diagram showing the section of 

 hillside planting (Fig. 21) it will be seen that the 

 scale of the plant materials has been very carefully 

 arranged to take advantage of the topography. 



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