TEXTBOOK OF LANDSCAPE GARDENING 
Discussion ° 
In all cases the garden gate offers an opportunity for effective 
design. It should be made an interesting and attractive feature. 
Nothing could better illustrate than a gate problem of this sort 
what are the essentials of good taste in design. The most attractive 
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gate is certainly not the one which has the most elaborate, expensive 
and fanciful ornaments. It is rather one which has good proportions, 
simplicity, dignity and sound construction. 
As will be seen in these designs and in the photographs and 
sketches reproduced in this same chapter such a garden gate can 
hardly be made attractive without the liberal use of plants, — trees, 
shrubs, vines, hardy perennials. All such materials combine de- 
lightfully with items of this kind. 
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