Particular Objects 



ing, as enough of union of lines and balance of parts may 

 be produced by placing them at a little distance from it. 



No subject perhaps is less studied by landscape gardeners, 

 or occasions more alarm in the mind of an architect, than the 

 necessity that exists for assisting the effect of houses by the 

 felicitous introduction around them of a few trees or shrubs 

 at the right points. Without some such help, a house might 

 almost as well be in a town as in the country, and the most 

 artistic combination of parts will fail to satisfy a tasteful 

 observer, unless there blend with the building, at certain 

 intervals, larger or smaller patches of green foliage. Even 

 a mansion of the highest and most classical kind will not be 

 exempted from this rule. 



4. Grouping. — To produce strong and striking effects in 

 a garden there must be not merely a tolerably varied collec- 

 tion of plants disposed so as to give variety and contrast, 

 but groups of particular kinds should be planted in promi- 

 nent places that occasional broader masses of a peculiar form 

 or color may be obtained. From three to six or even eight 

 specimens of some showy kinds may thus be planted in an 

 irregular group at any jutting point in a bed or on some 

 swell of a mound, and will create a very striking impression 

 by their foliage or flowers. They should be placed near 

 enough to each other to grow into a thicket without injury 

 to any of the plants, that only one dense mass of heads and 

 none of the individual stems may be seen, and that the effect 

 may be more like what one immense specimen would yield. 



The effect is even better if plants of more modest and less 

 conspicuous character be used in much larger masses. Spi- 

 reas, dogwoods, viburnums, and the like (native plants espe- 

 cially) can be used in decided profusion. This is one of the 

 great discoveries of twentieth-century landscape architecture 

 in America. 



