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THE PLAN OP THE PLACE 



picture, is more effective than twenty flowers in 

 the center of the lawn. 



More depends upon the positions which plants 

 occupy with reference to each other and to the 



140. A front yard planting. 



structural design of the place, than upon the 

 intrinsic merits of the plants themselves. 



Landscape gardening, then, is the embellish- 

 ment of grounds in such a way that they will have 

 a nature -like or landscape effect. 



VARIOUS SPECIFIC EXAMPLES 



The foregoing remarks will mean more if the 

 reader is shown some concrete examples. I have 

 selected a few cases, not because they are the 



