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plan in mind fully worked out before attempting to make any 

 change in the grounds. This plan should be made on paper while 

 the idea is yet fresh in the mind. The unrecorded ideal is likely to 

 change in time, and since the work of landscaping may require 

 several seasons or even years for its completion, the first part of the 

 plan may be out of harmony with the latter part before the work 

 is completed. Professor Waugh, in Landscape Gardening, says: 

 " The plan should be drawn with good inks on the most durable 



Suggestions for a farmyard -(.Prof. Waugh). 



a, Sugar maples; 6, shrubbery; c, climbers on the porch; d, hawthorn; e, elms; 

 /, basswood or horse-chestnut trees; g, sycamores. 



paper; and it should be supplemented by written specifications 

 made equally durable. These plans and specification cannot 

 descend too deeply into the minutiae of the composition; for an 

 unsympathetic treatment of the smallest items may mar irrepara- 

 bly the grandest conception." Plans and specifications are none 

 too explicit if they locate and name every tree, shrub, bush, vine, 

 and every flowering plant that is to be used on the lawn. In select- 

 ing your plan adopt something that will be in harmony with the 

 residence and the surroundings. 



