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the individual interest of the plant material which 

 is nsed to achieve the design is of secondary im- 

 portance. The plants are arranged and selected 

 solely with regard to their size, form, color, and 

 scale. This allows a vast latitude, for shapes de- 

 sired in the design may be represented by any one 

 of half a dozen quite different species. In fact, 

 I)lants are here used rather as architectural mem- 

 bers than as anything else. The architecture of 

 the buildings and other accessories should pre- 

 dominate, but the architectural appearance must 

 extend to the planting also if the garden scheme is 

 to be successful. Therefore the planting must 

 have somewhat the same stiffness and rigidity as 

 is inherent in stone, brick, or wood in so far as the 

 material employed permits. 



An architectural garden should possess the same 

 characteristics as a more extended architectural 

 planting, but may be more fancifully treated and 

 more highly specialized. A very interesting ex- 

 ample of the use of architectural features in a 

 decorative fashion is seen in the little "temples" 

 which occur at the middle of the side retaining- 

 walls of the formal entrance court at Montacute 

 House (Fig. 57). The piers of the balustrade are 

 crowned by stone pyramids, and in order to pro- 



