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possess enough refinement to claim an educated 

 taste for any length of time. All the elements of 

 attractiveness are pushed at one, and nothing is 

 left for later discovery and enjoyment. 



It is a well-known fact that the taste of people 

 who become interested in pictures changes rapidly 

 as their familiarity with and knowledge of them 

 increases. It is the same with plants. The un- 

 educated taste requires the nerve-shattering ac- 

 cent of the round, red geranium bed in the 

 middle of the front lawn; the more refined taste 

 much prefers the simple expanse of green, with 

 the color accents relegated to the border. Bar- 

 baric colors may be cheerful, but they certainly 

 cannot be termed restful. 



A painter of landscapes, one who designs them 

 on canvas, has much greater freedom than does the 

 landscape-designer, who depends for all his effects 

 upon architectural and horticultural material. 



If the painter desires to change a color slightly, 

 he mixes another color with it to produce the effect 

 he wishes. That resource is not open to the land- 

 scape-designer. He must search for another 

 plant that has the required color characteristic in 

 addition to other essential qualities, and there may 

 be no such variety as he wishes. In that case he 



