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Review 
MANUAL OF GARDENING 
We have now discussed some of the principles and applica- 
tions of landscape architecture 
53. An enclosure for lawn games. 
central figure, the planting completes 
the composition and adds the color. 
The second conception is the prin- 
ciple that the picture should have a 
landscape effect. That is, it should be 
nature-like. Carpet-beds are masses 
of color, not pictures. They are the 
little garnishings and reliefs that are 
to be used very cautiously, as little 
eccentricities and conventionalisms in 
a building should never be more than 
very minor features. 
Every other concept in landscape 
gardening is subordinate to these two. 
Some of the most important of these 
secondary yet underlying considera- 
tions are as follows: — 
The place is to be conceived of as 
not pleasing, ask an architect to impro 
or landscape gardening, par- 
ticularly in reference to 
the planting. The ob- 
ject of landscape garden- 
ing is to make a picture. 
All the grading, seeding, 
planting, are incidental 
and supplemental to this 
one central idea. The 
greensward is the canvas, 
the house or some other 
prominent point is the 
54. Sunlight and shadow. 
a unit. 
ve it. 
If a building is 
The real architect 
