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ground modeling may be produced in the inexpensive material of 

 plant foliage. Here, as always where planting is used to screen out 

 some undesirable thing from the composition, the winter effect must 

 also be considered, and if this is important either very close-growing 

 deciduous plants or else evergreens should be used. When the knolls 

 and hollows are small, and consequently the planting plays a propor- 

 tionally more important part in the design, the scale relation of planting 

 to topography must be particularly studied, so that it may explain the 

 topography and not obscure it. A little hill might be made more effec- 

 tive by a planting of hawthorn, but quite dwarfed by a grove of elms. 



POINTED HI U- 

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ROUNDED HIUL 

 BARE. 



POINrEDHIU. 

 WITH HARMONIOU& PLANTINQ 



DRAWING XXII 



In large compositions where the actual height of any tree-planting 

 which might be made would add but little proportionally to the height 

 of the hill which is to be planted, the form and character relation, rather 

 than the relation of size, between the planting and the ground becomes 

 proportionally more important, although in any naturalistic design it is 

 to be considered.* A sharp-pointed and craggy hill may perhaps best 

 be crowned or accented with trees of aspiring form ; a round and gentle 

 hill might have upon its top an irregular and crouching mass of round- 

 headed deciduous trees which carry their branches close to the ground. 

 * Cf. Plant Character and Landscape Character, p. 165. 



