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sort that he would find in a ramble about that lo- 

 cality, growing in natural conditions. He may 

 wish to make it picturesque by emphasizing un- 

 usual features and combinations, or he may, from 

 his interest in other countries, desire a large dis- 

 play of exotic plants. These questions deal not 

 only with the plant material, but more or less with 

 the arrangement. One cannot use the irregular 

 plant material in formal planting schemes any 

 more than one can produce an appearance of in- 

 formality by the use of stiff, precise plants and 

 clipped hedges. 



The villa type of garden is one which must be 

 considered most frequently in America, and is the 

 type employed to best advantage in the suburbs of 

 large cities, and in the residential portions of small 

 cities. The garden planting in this case is consid- 

 ered as a setting for the house, and therefore 

 spreads itself about more than if it were restricted 

 to a definite area, as in the case of the out-door- 

 room type of architectural garden. Neighbor- 

 hood planting would come under this head. The 

 out-door room idea may exist, indeed, as a part of 

 the scheme of villa planting, yet the restriction of 

 all plants to such a purpose would lay major em- 

 phasis on a strictly formal treatment, and would 



