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LANDSCAPE DESIGN 



27; value of knowledge of natural forms 

 in, 130-31 ; use of office force in designing, 



335-36; 



procedure in design, 338-53; methods 

 in designing, 340-42 ; sequential decisions 

 in, 340-41 ; imagination in, 341 ; 



representation of design, 342-51 : models, 

 342-43 ; pictures and plans, 343 ; written 

 statements, 343-44; verbal directions and 

 explanations, 345 



Landscape designs, types, 231-323, refs., 'iJ'i- 

 81 ; classified according to typical uses, 

 231-32 



Landscape effect, defined, 22-23 > ^s a 

 criterion of style and character, 76; and 

 landscape composition, 93 



Landscape effects, 76-87; in Japanese styles, 

 55-56; of prairie, 64; of barren or tundra, 

 65; of Sierra mountain meadow, 68; 

 taste in, 76 ; variety of, 77 ; literary dis- 

 cussions of, 77 ; 



examples, 77-82 : the " beautiful " and 

 the " picturesque," 77-79; sublimity, 79- 

 81; desolation, 81; melancholy, 81-82; 

 gayety, 82 ; mystery, 82-83 ; 



effects from transitory conditions, 83 ; 

 harmony and contrast, 83-84; effects in 

 landscape characters, 84-85 ; effects in 

 styles, 85-86; design in effects, 86-87; 

 from hills and mountains, valleys, plains, 

 and bodies of water, 130-37; in the land- 

 scape park, Olmsted quotation, note, 299; 

 of park scenes, 305. See also Emotional 

 effects 



Landscape maintenance, see Maintenance 



Landscape painters, as inspiration of land- 

 scape style, 45 



Landscape painting, ref., 368 



Landscape parks, see Parks, Landscape 



Landscape reservations, see Reservations, 

 Landscape 



" Landscape School," 46 



Landscape style, Romantic, 45-47 ; modern 

 American, 57-59; inspiration from English 

 pastoral landscape, 70 



Landscape superintendence, see Superintend- 

 ence 



Lante, Villa, 40, 209, 215; illus., 23, plates 

 19, 29 



Lanterns, garden, 55, 56 



Latham, Charles, ref., 376 



Lattices, covered with vines, 170, 172; as 

 building decoration, 188; shelters, 198; 

 fences, 205, 207-9; '" garden design, 242 



Laundry yard, 263 



Lawns, in historic styles of landscape design, 

 48, 58, 59; shadows on, 112, 1 13; in 

 composition, 122, 123; suggestions from 

 pond shore forms, 138; composition of 

 informal boundaries, 167-70; in planting 

 design, 183; in the estate, 249; as in- 

 formal garden, 261 ; as unit of the estate, 

 267-68 ; in apportionment of estate area, 

 274; ref., 371 



Lay, Charles Downing, note, 332; rejs., 362, 

 378 



Ledges, planting to enhance character, 71 ; 

 in waterfalls, 142; in naturalistic design, 

 145-46; steps along, 203; in large land- 

 scape parks, 303 



Leipzig, Mariannenpark, 226 



Le Notre, Andre, his style of landscape de- 

 sign, 29, 33, 42-45, 52; imitators, 44; 

 note, 47; ref., 365 



Leonardo da Vinci, quoted, note, 114 



Lettering on landscape plans, 349; composi- 

 tion of, 351 



Lewis, Nelson P., ref., 380 



Light, color and, 105-6; as affecting loca- 

 tion and orientation of house in estate, 



,253-57 



Light and shade, effect of gayety, 82 ; as 

 affecting landscape effects, 83 ; in composi- 

 tion, 1 1 1- 13; unity in landscape composi- 

 tion, 111-12; variability, 112-13; differ- 

 entiation of planes of distance, 127; of 

 reflections in pools, 216 



Light standards in the large landscape park, 

 316-17 



Line, character of, in representation on land- 

 scape plans, 348 



Lipps, Theodore, note, 14 



Literary discussions of landscape effects, 77 



Literary influences on landscape design, 46 



Lots in land subdivision, salable assets, 276- 

 78; hillside, 284; sizes, 286; width and 

 depth, 286-87; shape, 287-88; orientation, 

 288-89; restrictions, 291-93 



Loudon, John Claudius, refs., 363, 367, 371 



Louis XIV, 33. 37. 8S 



