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MANUAL OF GARDENING 



57. An old-fashioned doorway. 



effective than twenty flowers 

 in the center of the lawn. 



More depends on the posi- 

 tions that plants occupy with 

 reference to each other and to 

 the structural design of the place, 

 than on the intrinsic merits of 

 the plants themselves. 



Landscape gardening, then, 

 is the embellishment of 

 grounds in such a way that 

 they will have a nature-like or 

 landscape effect. The flowers 

 and accessories may heighten 

 and accelerate the effect, but 

 they should not contradict it. 



In a landscape picture flow- 

 ers are incidents. They add 

 emphasis, supply color, give 

 variety and finish; they are 

 the ornaments, but the lawn 

 and the mass-plantings make 

 the framework. One flower 

 in the border, and made an 

 incident of the picture, is more 



An informally treated stream. 



