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extreme. It is merely a question of nice adjust- 

 ment, which .will depend largely upon the good 

 taste of the designer. 



Since accents are not conducive to unity, in each 

 planting scheme there should be a distinctly 

 larger amount of unifying than accent planting. 

 If this is done, the accents will brighten and tone 

 up the whole, instead of seeming to struggle for 

 superiority. This is where the layman most fre- 

 quently errs ; his planting is a system of color ex- 

 clamations. 



Accents should never appear in filler shrubs, 

 since these are always a unifying element and 

 should not be disturbed; the accent must appear 

 either in the background or in the facer. Where 

 trees to be seen from a distance require accent, it 

 should always be given by a shrub facing. Even 

 though the accent colors differ widely from the 

 rest of the color scheme, it will be of advantage if 

 the dominating color note appears in them to a 

 slight extent. This will insure their perfect 

 amalgamation. 



If a planting scheme is on a large scale and di- 

 vided into distinctly separate parts, it will often 

 be well to allow the accent color in one scheme to 

 predominate in another: it will be a sufficiently 



