64 LANDSCAPE-GARDENING 



tight with foliage that the eye cannot penetrate be- 

 yond the outer covering. She will soon grow a 

 thicket that will hide the most magnificent view. 

 She will grow a vine that will smother the most 

 rare and valuable tree. In such cases, the judicious 

 use of the ax will greatly help nature's own arrange- 

 ment. Usually the poorer of two or more trees can 

 be selected for cutting, but sometimes one's con- 

 science will require the removal of a really fine tree. 

 Usually a landscape-gardener is making pictures, 

 not a collection of fine specimens, or a museum, but 

 this will not preclude using the very best of trees 

 when they are in the right places. Indeed a design 

 may often be changed from that originally in mind 

 to insure that an existing tree, bush, or group shall 

 be in the proper place. 



A view may be made to appear long by placing 

 at its farther end plants having light-colored foliage, 

 like that of the royal willow or the so-called Russian 

 olive, and placing near at hand plants with darker 

 leaves. This is only using the same device employed 

 by painters, engravers, and by nature herself. Look 

 at any photograph of scenery and note that the 

 distant parts are indicated by lighter tones. This 

 lighter tone of far-away objects is due largely to 



