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scape work. He is impatient to "get his 

 effect" at once. He rebels at the require- 

 ments of so planning his work that the 

 effect will be good under successive or 

 alternative conditions of growth which 

 can be foreseen only in general terms. He 

 wholly fails to grasp that the aim in most 



landscape work is not a single fixed 

 "effect," conceived as immutable but real- 

 ly only momentary. The normal aim of 

 landscape architecture is the whole sum 

 of effects, as seen through changing sea- 

 sons and years in the whole life history 

 of a living design. 



