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are desired for shade. It will readily be seen from 

 this plan how extensive the area for flowers be- 

 comes when they are placed upon such a devious 

 border. More color effect can be got from such 

 an arrangement of the flowers than could be 

 secured if the whole area were planted to flower- 

 beds. Fig. 175 illustrates a map plan of a very 

 rough piece of ground. The sides of the place 

 are high, and it becomes necessary to carry a walk 

 through the middle area; and upon either side of 

 the front, it skirts the banks. Such a plan is 

 usually unsightly on paper, but may nevertheless 

 fit special cases very well. The plan is inserted 

 here for the purpose of illustrating the fact that a 

 plan which will work upon the ground does not 

 necessarily work upon a map. In charting a place, 

 it is important to locate the points from which the 

 walks are to start, and at which they are to emerge 

 from the grounds. These two points are then 

 joined by direct and simple curves, and alongside 

 the walks, especially in angles or bold curves, 

 planting may be inserted. 



A suggestion for school premises upon a four- 

 corners, and which the pupils enter from three 

 directions, is made in Fig. 176. The two play- 

 grounds are separated by a broken group of 

 bushes extending from the building to the rear 

 boundary; but in general, the spaces are kept 

 open, and the heavy border -masses clothe the 

 place and make it home -like. The lineal extent 



