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for a landscape-gardener to attempt to produce this 

 charm. He cannot succeed as well as nature, but 

 he can sometimes come very near to doing so, and 

 may really succeed in certain details. The artist's 

 saying, "It is the perfection of art to conceal art," 

 is applicable to landscape-gardening and is certainly 

 true. When rows and circles are discovered, art 

 is not concealed. 



What has been said in regard to rows for trees 

 and shrubs is equally applicable to herbaceous 

 plants. One should study a hillside or a rocky 

 ledge covered with columbines, a marsh dotted 

 w r ith lady-slippers, a sandy ridge covered with 

 lupines and puccoons, the carpet of anemones 

 under a thorn-apple ; there are no rows in any of 

 these examples, yet where is the artificial flo\ver-bed 

 that can compare with them in beauty of arrange- 

 ment ? 



Although this rule not to plant in rows seems so 

 simple, it is one of the most difficult to carry out. If 

 told to the man setting out trees or other plants, 

 nine times out of ten he will fail to observe it. He 

 will try, but his trees wall be in zigzags (Fig. 12). 

 The lines are there just the same, only one line 

 has been moved half a space forward. It seems 



