240 LANDSCAPE-GARDENING 



plants, satisfactory grades, beautiful sky-lines, in- 

 teresting boundaries for spaces, all of which will 

 give useful hints in designing the park. 



If the tract selected for a park is covered or 

 partly so with native forest, it is fortunate. In 

 this case, the removal of some growth will doubt- 

 less be needed. Some trees and bushes must be 

 removed to open up views, others because they are 

 partially or wholly dead, others since they inter- 

 fere with the proper development of better growth, 

 and still others just to make a beautiful picture. 

 This work cannot be done or planned in an office. 

 It requires the skill of a landscape-gardener on the 

 ground, and the selection of plants to be taken out 

 should never be left to the wood choppers. A 

 landscape-gardener should visit the land before it 

 is selected for a park if possible, but if he cannot 

 do that he should at least see it before any work 

 is done on it. The need of this may be illustrated 

 by an incident. A landscape-gardener was en- 

 gaged to design a park and on going out to see the 

 land with the park commissioners, he was told 

 that he had come just in time. "You can have 

 everything your own way," they said to him, "we 

 haven't done a thing," then, after a pause, "ex- 



