64 How to Lay Out 



CHAPTKH VIII. 



There are too many who have no idea of im- 

 provement, except by increasing the quantity, 

 the quality, or the value of an estate. The 

 beauty of the scenery seldom enters into their 

 thought; and, What will it cost? or, What will 

 it yield? not. How will it look? Mt-ins thr gen- 

 eral object of inquiry in all improvements. 

 KKPTON. 



|HAT shall I plant? is the usual question of thr 

 improver, not where shall I plant or how will the 

 grounds look? If there is an open space or a nice 

 dean expanse or breadth of lawn there is great 

 temptation to plant in the middle a tree, a bush, a flower bed, 

 or a rockery. It has almost become a belief that he who plants 

 a tree is a benefactor only plant never mind art or 

 artistic feeling in the location of the tree. Sometimes one 

 will hear a remark, "I don't need any plans; just give me 

 the hushes; I can see it all in my eye how to plant on the 

 ground." Such words are not infrequent from s<>-calle<l pro- 

 fessors of the art of landscape gardening or landscape archi- 

 tecture. Does it not seem strange that such men as Hepton 

 and Olmstead, masters in their art, should need to make a 

 plan? Sec Plan VI. 



Then the next step is to make a planting plan after the 

 grading plan has been finished or the grading has hren com- 

 pleted. This plan should show in detail the kind and number 

 of plants to use to form the groups and masse* indicated on the 

 preliminary sketch. 



To begin with, take the grading plan and the topographical 

 map and compile a complete map of all the existing features, 

 the house mid the new changes in the grounds. Then locate 

 by arrow lines the direction of the views from the principal 



