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Landscape Gardening 



old method of intermingling species and varieties of all 

 colors and habits of growth, and substitute for it the oppo- 

 site mode of grouping or massing colors and particular 

 species of plants. Masses of crimson and white, of yellow 

 and purple, and the other colors and shades, brought boldly 

 into contrast, or disposed so as to form an agreeable har- 

 mony, will attract the eye, and make a much more forcible 



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and delightful impression, than can ever be produced by a 

 confused mixture of shades and colors, nowhere distinct 

 enough to give any decided effect to the whole. The effect 

 of thus collecting masses of colors in a flower garden in 

 this way, is to give it what the painters call breadth of 

 effect, which in the other mode is entirely frittered away 

 and destroyed.* 



* II is hard to believe now how far in advance of the times was Down- 

 ing's doctrine of mass effects, here clearly enunciated, so far in advance 

 of the times, indeed, that Downing himself did not always rise to it. - 

 F. A. W. 



