DRAWINGS TO ACCOMPANY APPENDIX, PART II 



Typical Drawings for a Landscape Job : 

 Plans for the Development of a Suburban Estate 



While these plans, with the exception of Drawing XXXVII, have been 

 re-drawn in order that the figures upon them may be legible at the reduced 

 scale at which they are shown, they are otherwise such drawings as might 

 be prepared in the office of a reasonably efficient landscape architect during 

 the progress of a piece of work of this kind. 



In many cases it would be desirable, where the topographic map was 

 prepared from elevations taken on the corners of cross-section squares, to 

 show these points with their elevations on the topographic map for greater 

 accuracy. In this case, however, the contours, together with the elevations 

 of the ground at the foot of every tree — which were given on the original 

 map — were sufficient for the use of the designer. Further detail in regard 

 to the boulevard would have been given if it had not been certain from the 

 first that there would be no road entrance on this side of the property. 



The grading plan with its accompanying profile would be used directly, 

 in connection with the specifications and the interpretation of these by the 

 representative of the landscape architect on the ground, in the grading, 

 removal of trees and shrubs, preparation of the soil, construction of roads 

 and paths, arrangements for drainage, water-supply, and lighting of the 

 grounds, and similar items of the construction. In the case of smaller or 

 more definite and detailed things, like buildings and steps, bird bath, walls, 

 arches, arrangement of paths in the flower garden, special paving in pat- 

 terns, and so on, the grading plan shows the location and general proportions 

 of these constructions ; but special detailed plans at larger scale (no examples 

 of which are given In this book) would be followed in their actual execution. 



The planting plan shows the number of plants to be used, and in a general 

 way their proposed locations on the ground. The planting in definite small 

 areas, formal or informal, like the flower garden, the vicinity of the bird 

 bath, the steps to the boulevard, would be shown in more detail on the plant- 

 ing plans at larger scale. The actual arrangement of the plants, however, 

 the blending of one plant group into another, the whole study of the detailed 

 relation of the plants to produce exactly the effect desired, under the par- 

 ticular local circumstances as they develop and with the particular stock as 

 it is delivered from the nursery, all this is a matter of judgment in design on 

 the part of the superintendent, and cannot be recorded on plan. 



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