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ances. It will be better if the shrubs are massed 

 rather irregularly, with emphasis at the corners of 

 the house. 



Two plans of distinctly different treatments of 

 the same problem are here shown (Figs. 41, 43). 

 They may serve to give an idea of the many and 

 various possibilities. 



In the rendered plan shown in Figure 41 the 

 entrance and service drives are combined, and 

 there is a public and semi-public portion, the latter 

 containing a service court, a garage, a laundry- 

 yard, and a vegetable garden. The small private 

 garden, laid out on formal lines, with its turf panel 

 and its rose garden, is sharply separated from the 

 semi-public part by high and thick planting. 



The colors in the planting scheme (Fig. 42) 

 have been chosen so as to separate the yellow and 

 the blue greens, putting the blue green at the far- 

 ther end to exaggerate the color impression of per- 

 spective. Blue greens and yellow greens never 

 seem to go well together without intermediates, 

 and they have consequently been separated here. 

 A decrease in leaf size will also heighten the illu- 

 sion of distance. The planting about the private 

 lawn is first for screening; interest of outline is 

 a secondary consideration. Lastly there is some 



