STYLES OF LANDSCAPE DEVELOPMENT 



must be regarded as two entirely separate units and therefore be 

 distinctly divided. 



The most commonly met with style of landscape is the natural 

 For this the native growth on similar soil and in similar locations 

 should be studied, and an effort made to reproduce the natural effect. 

 If your grounds are low and more or less moist, only moisture-loving 

 plants should be used; the composition of the soil will also enter into 

 the selection of the plant material. In arrangement the planting 

 should consist of masses containing a number of plants of the same 

 kind rather than a few each of many different kinds. 



It is taken for granted that all exotic and grotesque forms of 

 plants should be omitted from the natural planting, but this does not 

 mean that there is to be monotony. There is ample scope for such a 

 selection that the natural garden will be full of interest and beauty 

 every day in the year — just as Nature is. The lines of planting should 

 be in long, easy, graceful curves; bays should be left in the shrubbery 

 borders; and the trees in groups need not be well-shaped. Here and 

 there a slightly crooked stem or slant- 

 ing effect is quite in keeping. In a wild 

 clump of Birch who ever saw each|tree]a 

 perfect, symmetrical specimen ? 



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Fig. 3.— The subsoil^should be graded just as carefully and almost as accurately as the 



finished surface. This also shows how a line of drain tile can be laid to keep water from 



seeping into the cellar.— See pages 11 and 16 



