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GARDEN PLANNING 



be valuable as background, and by no means 

 unbeautiful in themselves. Still there are 

 times when the tenants of the vegetable plot 

 do not look their best — as, for instance, when 

 Brussels sprouts tower lankily skyward, and 

 peas are yellowing and sinking into disorder. 



The planning of gardens of larger size than 

 the typical example just treated involves the 

 same general principles, though the details and 

 style of treatment may be different. It is 

 mainly a question of scale, though the inclusion 

 of additional features facilitated by the larger 

 area of ground available may tend to complicate 

 the problem. Still the mode of procedure 

 should be along lines similar to those already 

 described, and the planner must ever be alive 

 to the importance of studying aspect and of 

 building up a picture in three dimensions. 



Gardens of irregular outline may in- 

 volve some early difficulties in planning, 

 but they are generally amenable to treat- 

 ment on common-sense principles, and not 

 infrequently such gardens are, by their unusual 

 shape, eminently adapted for obtaining pic- 

 turesque effects. Examples of such gardens 

 will be found in a later chapter, reference to 



