60 MANUAL OF GARDENING 
57. An old-fashioned doorway. 
effective than twenty flowers 
in the center of the lawn. 
More depends on the posi- 
tions that plants occupy with 
reference to each other and to 
the structural design of the place, 
than on the intrinsic merits of 
the plants themselves. 
Landscape gardening, then, 
is the embellishment of 
grounds in such a way that 
they will have a nature-like or 
landscape effect. The flowers 
and accessories may heighten 
and accelerate the effect, but 
they should not contradict it. 
In a landscape picture flow- 
ers are incidents. They add 
emphasis, supply color, give 
variety and finish; they are 
the ornaments, but the lawn 
and the mass-plantings make 
the framework. One flower 
in the border, and made an 
incident of the picture, is more 
58. An informally treated stream. 
