The Treatment of Large Areas 9 



there is a most harmonious relation of 

 all accessories trees, contours, vistas, 

 roads, and so on there is sure to come a 

 time of wearying monotony, caused by a 

 realization of the fact that we had not 

 been quite equal, through our lack of ex- 

 perience, to develop the place as it might 

 have been developed. 



A piece of ground in the rough must 

 first be shaped up by draining, removing 

 trees or stones, planning roads and such 

 things, before the smoothing process can 

 be attempted, and it is in this roughing- 

 out process where the future landscape 

 picture is either made or destroyed. 



Here is where the professional land- 

 scape man can save you many dollars 

 and much disappointment. I have seen 

 so many sad results in cases of land de- 

 velopment where too much confidence has 

 been the stumbling-block on the road to 



