THE GENERAL PLAN OR THEORY OF THE PLACE 23 
sky-line, the bold bays and promontories, and the infinite play 
of light and shade. The observer is interested in each because 
it has character, or features, that no other mass in all the world 
possesses. He knows that the birds build their nests in the 
tangle and the rabbits find it a covert. 
Now let the reader turn to Fig. 9, which is a picture o: an 
“improved”’ city yard. Here there is no structural outline to 
the planting, no defining of the area, no continuous flow of the 
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13. An open treatment of a school-ground. More trees might be placed in the 
area, if desired. 
form and color. Every bush is what every other one is or may 
be, and there are hundreds like them in the same town. The 
birds shun them. Only the bugs find any happiness in them. 
The place has no fundamental design or idea, no lawn upon 
which a picture may be constructed. This yard is like a 
sentence or a conversation in which every word is equally 
emphasized. 
In bold contrast with this yard is the open-center treatment 
in Fig. 13. Here there is pictorial effect; and there is opportu- 
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