Gardening in California 



CHAPTER II. 



PLANNING THE PLEASURE-GARDEN AND GROUNDS. 



THE subject of this chapter is one which should receive 

 very careful consideration before the work is actually 

 begun, and a detailed PLAN of planting should be 

 sketched out, especially keeping in view what the effect of the 

 trees, shrubs and plants will be when they reach maturity. What 

 that plan of planting actually may be depends very greatly upon 

 how the ground is located. 



If the site selected is on a hill, the character of the planting 

 will be entirely different from that of a location on a level plain, 

 where the situation is more likely to be well sheltered and favored 

 with a deep, rich soil. 



In this, as in every work we undertake, the first thing to be 

 considered is the end in view, and the next the best means of 

 attaining that end. As, in the planting of a Pleasure-Garden 

 and Grounds, the end to be attained is how the trees and plants 

 shall be most effectively placed, (both that they themselves shall 

 appear to the best advantage, and also that each tree, and group 

 of plants and shrubs shall contribute its full proportion to the 

 effective laying out of the property as a whole), in order to attain 

 that end, it is necessary to take advantage of every point in the 

 natural formation of the location. 



As has just been stated, the character of the planting on a 

 hillside site is very different from that on a site located in a shel- 

 tered valley. On a hillside site the ground is seldom of an even 

 nature, there frequently being projecting points of land or rocky 

 outcroppings showing through the surface. These projecting 

 points should be ornamented with hardy, strong-growing trees 



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