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TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY 



A vegetable garden of area sufficient to sup- 

 ply the home-table with fresh vegetables in 

 their season is to be provided. 



Mr. C. himself is interested in wild flowers, 

 and desires to have provided a secluded area 

 as natural in appearance as possible in which 

 wild flowers can be grown. His wife wishes 

 a formal flower-garden in which she can, so 

 far as possible, have a succession of bloom 

 from early spring until late fall, and interest- 

 ing winter effects. The special desires and 

 tastes of the other members of the family are 

 not specified and may be assumed. 



The buildings are to be shown in first-floor 

 plan, and grade figures (approximate only) are 

 to be given at significant points about build- 

 ings and informal garden, and along center- 

 lines of important roads. Water-mains and 

 electric-light wires are to be laid in the street 

 by the community, but the landscape architect 

 in his preliminary report must recommend the 

 method of sewage disposal to be employed. 



REQUIREMENTS 



The competitor is required to hand in: 

 1. A preliminary sketch-plan for the whole 

 area, drawn directly on black-line print sup- 

 plied with this statement (the competitor will 

 be supplied with tracing paper for his stud- 



ies.); this sketch-plan to be accompanied by 

 such other preliminary drawings as the com- 

 petitor may deem it well to submit to the sup- 

 posed client with a view to making clearer 

 and more convincing the recommendations 

 contained in the plan, and in the letter to the 

 client (see below). The Committee, in judg- 

 ing this preliminary plan and accompanying 

 drawings, will consider primarily the clearness 

 of thought and soundness of judgment evinced 

 by the design, and the appearance it would 

 have if executed: and secondarily, the effec- 

 tiveness (particularly the clarity) of the pre- 

 sentation. The method of presentation is left 

 to the competitor to determine, provided only 

 that in the case of the plan the design is to be 

 presented directly upon the print of the topo- 

 graphical map. He is not to carry away from 

 the preliminary competition any copies of the 

 topographical map. 



2. A letter to the client explaining the plan 

 and the reasons behind it, and in general set- 

 ting forth the competitor's recommendations 

 as convincingly as may be in the manner he 

 would do this in professional practice. The 

 competitor is to retain some record of his 

 recommendations which, if he shall later be 

 admitted to the final competition, he will be 

 expected to follow in the main. 



AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME 



FELLOWSHIP IN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE 

 FINAL COMPETITION, APRIL 26 TO JUNE 5, INCLUSIVE. 1915 



During this final competition, it is under- 

 stood that the competitors shall work in pri- 

 vate and without assistance other than from 

 the use of published texts, photographs, plates, 

 etc. They shall not obtain criticisms from in- 

 structors, fellow students or others. 



PROBLEM 



The problem is the one set for the Prelim- 

 inary Competition, of the statement of which 

 a copy is attached hereto. The area is the 

 same (a new print of the topography accom- 

 panies this paper), and the conditions indicated 

 on the topographic map and set forth in the 

 just named statement of the Preliminary Com- 

 petition remain the same in every respect for 

 this Final Competition. But the program now 

 calls for the most thorough possible develop- 



ment of this problem short of its actual exe- 

 cution, and thus demands complete working 

 drawings, specifications, and detailed esti- 

 mates of cost. 



REQUIREMENTS 

 The competitor is required to hand in: 

 1. A general plan for the whole estate, at the 

 scale of the topographic map. This is to be 

 based on, and follow, the essential idea em- 

 bodied in the competitor's preliminary com- 

 petition plan, and to show all the essential in- 

 formation which that showed with respect to 

 the designer's scheme of treatment, and such 

 other information as the competitor, if en- 

 gaged on a problem in practice, would show 

 in a case where he felt it particularly desirable 

 to have the general plan carried out to the 



