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great cure without knowing how. I do not lay much 

 stress on any instructions in this matter as I have 

 always taken an easy middle course. It must also be 

 remembered that the foliage of trees will often assume 

 an entirely different and unexpected shade when 

 transplanted to a different soil and this cannot 

 always be regulated in a large plot. It may happen 

 that a dark coloured maple intended for shading 

 grows a very light foliage. It is quite obvious, 

 however, that one should avoid too variegated a 

 mixture of leaves, too frequent alternations of dark 

 and light green foliage, but here also where it would 

 be hard to lay down good, sharp rules in detail, the 

 taste of the owner must be the best guide. 



Colour effects of a reasonably exact and foreseen 

 character can be obtained during the summer with 

 bedding plants such as coleuses and geraniums. 



Finally it is important for the designer of landscape 

 work to keep his mind free from fads, and from the 

 tendency to place undue weight on some special part of 

 the place, for the garden is just as important as the 

 shrubbery, trees, and grass spaces, and equal in value 

 in their own ways are the roads and paths, and walls 

 and water pools, or lakes or streams. 



"Everything has its own perfection, be it higher 

 or lower in the scale of things, and the perfection of 

 one is not the perfection of another. Things ani- 

 mate, inanimate, visible or invisible, all are good in 



