CHAPTER XII 

 How To Make Lawn Pictures 



The artistic qualities of the lawn — Grouping trees and shrubs — Two 

 main styles of treatment — Making the most of small areas — Colour 

 values — Grass walks— Locating flower beds — Staking the outlines 

 Shaping the beds — Making an ellipse — Tracing curves and contra 

 curves — ^Art in design — Walks — Isolated clumps of shrubbery. 



Closely associated with the making of 

 the lawn is the planting around it. So 

 close indeed is this association that the term 

 "lawn" has become significant of the general 

 outlook of the grass and shrubbery effect. 

 The greensward is as the canvas on which 

 the artist paints, with living trees and shrubs 

 as his pigments. After all the grass itself 

 is not the picture but only the setting. 



OPEN AND BELT PLANTINGS 



There are two broad general principles 

 into which all treatments of the marginal 

 planting and surrounding grounds may be 

 grouped. On the one hand is what may 

 be called the open treatment, and on the 

 other the close or belt treatment. 



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