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daubs of paint to the building. Each of these 

 features might be good in itself. The paints might 

 be the best of ochre, ultramarine or paris green, 

 but they would have no relation to the building 

 as a whole and would be only ludicrous. These 

 two examples illustrate the difference between 

 landscape gardening and the scattering over the 

 place of mere ornamental features. 



Have some one central and emphatic point in 

 the picture. A picture of a battle draws its in- 

 terest from the action of a central figure or group. 

 The moment the incidental and lateral figures are 

 made as prominent as the central figures, the 

 picture loses emphasis, life and meaning. The 

 borders of a place are of less importance than its 

 center. Therefore 



Keep the center of the place open. Frame 

 and mass the sides. 



Avoid scattered effects. Flowers and high- 

 colored foliage are most effective against a back- 

 ground of green foliage. A flower-bed in the 

 middle of a lawn is only a flower-bed; against 

 the border -planting it is not only a flower-bed, 

 but it may be also a structural part of the 

 picture. 



Flowers are incidents in a landscape picture. 

 They add emphasis, supply color, give variety and 

 finish; they are the ornaments, but the lawn and 

 the mass -plantings make the framework. One 

 flower in the border, and made an incident of the 



