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are in entire harmony with each other. Here 

 it will be well to warn the designer new to 

 the work against planning for mere effect on 

 paper. The lines of the plan, representing as 

 they do the projection of the design on the 

 horizontal plane only, have little meaning if 

 they are not intimately correlated with some 

 effect in the third dimension. A garden at 

 all stages of its development should be a 

 thing of height as well as of length and 

 breadth. It is only by studying the effect 

 in the vertical plane that a successful and 

 artistic result is realizable. The plan is a 

 skeleton affair, merely defining the spaces 

 to be devoted to borders, beds, grass, and 

 gravel. 



The designing of a garden is a process akin 

 to the artist's conception and execution of a 

 picture. It is governed by principles identical 

 with those understood by the painter as com- 

 position," which may be defined as a general 

 balance of effect obtained without the use of 

 a too marked symmetry in the principal 

 features of the design. 



To ensure practical realization of this effect, 

 therefore, the designer must ever bear in mind 



