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not by any means impossible to increase the 

 apparent distances by means of judicious 

 curves and graceful lines. 



Very much may be accomplished in this 

 respect by the use of proper plants which 

 by means of their colour values help in the 

 composition of the picture. Thus, for in- 

 stance, the white birch planted nearly at the 

 end of a long and narrow stretch of lawn run- 

 ning between shrubbery borders, will, by 

 immediately fixing the eye, create the 

 impression of a much greater depth than 

 actually exists, and especially if beyond this 

 again some few feet away is a mass of plant- 

 ing in which the blue tone is dominant. 

 Yellow colours should be placed only in fore- 

 grounds because of the fore-shortening effect 

 that they give us. Masses of yellow foliage or 

 flowers placed at the distant point of the lawn, 

 no matter how skilfully the general plan may 

 have been made, will inevitably result in 

 destroying all sense of perspective. 



GRASS WALKS 



The grass walk, or turf walk as it is more 

 commonly called, is an all too rarely seen 



