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rence of accents wMch must differ sufficiently to 

 express development, or it may be an undulating 

 line like a river-bank, which compels the attention 

 to follow it. 



The growth of plants is always rhythmic; the 

 boundary of an informal walk should be. The 

 word rhythm has been used in so many different 

 ways that it has a number of loose connotations, 

 but for the purpose of landscape design, as treated 

 in this book, rhythm will mean the regular recur- 

 rence of an accent of some sort, which entails the 

 idea of change. Repetition — sequence, rhythm, 

 and balance — is the foundation of design. 



In solving a practical landscape problem, repe- 

 tition is not taken into consideration until its ap- 

 pearances are to be determined, and this cannot be 

 done until the economic side of the question is set- 

 tled. First will come the arrangement of all the 

 parts for the greatest practicability, and this is 

 fixed in designing the plan. The study of this 

 plan means the arrangement of all its elements in 

 such a way as to obtain the maximum of practical 

 and esthetic fitness. It is the plan which deter- 

 mines finally the position of all the members of the 

 design. 



The first thing to decide will be position of 



