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in importance and effect to something else, be that some- 

 thing buildings, towers, monuments, prominent hills, or 

 large adjacent areas devoted to a natural style of effects. 

 Terrace and slope combinations should, Avith rare ex- 

 ceptions, be characterized by a great degree of simplicity 

 in their arrangement. The complicated pretty produc- 

 tions in this line, sometimes met with in old school gar- 

 dens in Europe, are intolerable to every one of correct 



Fig. 20.— TEKRAOE WORK ADORNED WITH TREES, SHRUBS, AND FLOWERS. 



taste. The use of trees and shrubs in different places 

 for balancing the parts and relieving the geometrical 

 lines, is very desirable, provided they are dispersed with 

 taste. Figure 20 shows a simple terrace slope, embel- 

 lished with roses or other shrubs with good effect. 

 There is also shown a row of trees and a line of gerani- 

 ums, or other showy plants, on the level above in front 

 of the balustrade. Such a method of embellishment 

 goes far towards ridding these constructions, of what is 



