THE PRACTICE OF GARDEN DESIGN. 



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I know some will be disappointed that I have not gone more fully 

 into detail and into the names of trees and plants for special uses. 

 I have purposely avoided this, and I have taken the course I have in these 

 lectures, first treating of the historical and then the practical side, because 

 the bent of horticultural men is to make light of the traditions of a place, 

 and because in all of us in carrying out the work entrusted to us 

 there exists a tendency to lose the very spirit and character of the work 

 and get encumbered in details. 



