ARRANGEMENT OF PLANTING 



altogether on things that are planted. Often it de- 

 pends on things taken out. 



"Plant thick and thin quick" is a good rule, since 



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it gives a good appearance from the beginning and 

 an opportunity for 

 preserving the 

 strongest individ- 

 ual plants./ The 

 thinning, however, 

 may not be con- 

 fined to things 

 that have been 

 set out. Where 

 native woods exist, 

 the landscape-gar- 

 dener will surely 

 take advantage of 

 them in making 



his plans, and he will do the same with any existing 

 trees or other growth standing in the open or ex- 

 tending along fences or old buildings (Fig. 13). 

 ( While nature is the best teacher and does some 

 things incomparably well, she does not always pro- 

 duce the most artistic effect, at least from man's 

 point of view. \ She will close the edge of a wood so 



FIG. 13. THE IRREGULARITY OF NATURE. 

 Usually dead trees should be removed, but 

 occasionally one is so picturesque that it 

 should be retained. An old red cedar. 



