PLANTING FOR LANDSCAPE EFFECT. 



that we may have that greatest of all the charms of natural foliage, balance without 

 symmetry. 



The plan of a portion of the home park at Little Onn Hall, Staffordshire (111. No. Outline. 

 350), demonstrates how the principles discussed may be applied to an individual instance. 

 The radiating lines show the angle included in various views which it is the object of 

 the plantations to frame and emphasize. In this case, as the site is very flat, there 

 was an opportunity for constructing fine avenues, but for several reasons, the chief of which 

 was a desire to take advantage of some planting done a few years ago, the method 

 shown was adopted. 

 These plantations have 

 all curved outlines, and 

 this is the most usual 

 form, but it is not by 

 any means necessary 

 that this should always 

 be so. While the round 

 " clump " and the 

 straight thin " belt," 

 which were the stock 

 forms of plantation a 

 hundred years ago, are 

 alike hideous, instances 

 will arise both in the 

 garden and park where 

 any but a straight edge 

 to a plantation would 

 be artificial and affected. 

 In such a case any 

 stiffness can easily be 

 prevented by the 

 arrangement of the 

 trees, here receding from 

 the edge and there, with 

 their branches sweeping 

 out over the grass or 

 roadway which borders it. 



Having determined 

 the outlines of the 

 various plantations and 

 the general silhouette 

 of the foliage which it 

 is desired to obtain 

 in each instance, 



we 



OS PLflNTED 



FIG. 349. GROUP OF NINE ELMS. NATURE'S TRIUMPH OVER A 



STIFF ARRANGEMENT. 



have now to approach 



the arrangement of the 



trees and shrubs. Individual species are dealt with in the next chapter, and here we 



must confine ourselves to matters of general application, which will help the planter 



to decide for himself which of them are suitable in any given case. 



There can be no doubt that he who has learnt the one elementary rule that trees Planting in 

 should be planted in masses of one species and not a large number of different kinds, masses of 

 has, to a large extent, mastered the theory of planting. In this country it will generally one 



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