DEVELOPING THE LANDSCAPE PLAN 



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preliminary work. The greatest mistake that is commonly made and 

 which most vitally affects organization is lack of consideration for the 

 plan as a whole rather than as a series of separate and unrelated parts. 



Everyone has seen various gardens or plantings that they would 

 like to work out in some similar manner on their own place. It is most 

 certain that these favorable impressions have been received from differ- 

 ent parts of different places, each being attractive or clever, both in 

 design and treatment, and in the way they harmonized with the rest of 

 the scheme. To gather up these favorable ideas and plant them bodily 

 in one's own place would mean in most cases a conglomerate and un- 

 organized development most displeasing in its results. 



In starting the plan the idea that should be carried into the process 

 of development could almost be expressed as a creed in something of 

 this fashion, "I will make the best of the natural advantages and oppor- 

 tunities that are offered, choosing in my treatment only those ideas 

 which are absolutely fit and will bring about a harmonious whole." 



By feeling from the start that there is some limit only in the 

 choice of things which are fit, and not in the artistic expression that can 

 be put into whatever form of development is chosen, much disappoint- 

 ment can be prevented. It is not a loss but a gain t^ approach the next 

 step, which is determining the 

 treatment and use of the sepa- 

 rate areas, with this idea in 

 mind. In the uses these sepa- 

 rate spaces will perform, they 

 will be seen wholly or in part 

 at one time, and the different 

 points of view should be kept 

 in mind. The appearance and 

 treatment of each affects the 

 attractiveness of the other and 

 of the whole. Thus organi- 

 zation evolves itself into the 

 proper association of the dif- 

 ferent parts with especial con- 

 sideration given to their fitness 

 and relation in appearance 

 and approach from one an- 

 other. 



In most city places where 

 there is a rectangular house on 

 a rectangular lot a simple and 



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Fig. 10-A division of areas by extending 

 the lines of the house 



