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THE LANDSCAPE GARDENING BOOK 



Reference has been made in a previous chapter to sky line. It is 

 as much to be considered in planting shrubs as trees, for although 

 the top of shrubbery may not cut the sky when viewed under 

 ordinary circumstances, the outline of its top, taken as a whole, 

 has an important place in a composition. To give this sufficient 



The lawn ought always to run into the border, making little vistas that 

 suggest distance and space 



variation there must be intervals of comparatively low-growing 

 varieties that are not backed up by larger specimens ; and these 

 intervals, constituting the variation in the "profile" or vertical 

 section of the border, must be as carefully thought out and 

 planned as the ground plan of the group. 



Generally speaking, they will take the ground plan for their 

 guide and rise from it, quite as the elevation of a building rises 

 from its plan ; but here, as in architecture, the designer must 



