LANDSCAPE PLANNING 
LANDSCAPE GARDENING 
If you want to get the greatest joy out 
of Gardening, learn how to lay out your 
Home Grounds, or rearrange the plantings 
about your buildings or grounds to create 
a new setting. Learn how to design and 
plant the grounds for any public or private 
enterprise for a degree of usefulness and 
everlasting beauty. 
This Landscape Gardening Guide is not 
designed to make all of these suggestions, 
but to impress upon its readers the neces¬ 
sity of knowing WHAT IS NEEDED FOR 
BUILDING THE COMPLETE LAND¬ 
SCAPE PICTURE. With the aid of this 
Guide, the Property Owner may work out 
his problems for improving his Proi)erty 
from the beginning to the completion of 
the job. 
THE NEED FOR LANDSCAPE 
ARCHITECTS 
By no means do we want to discourage 
securing the services or consultation of a 
competent Landscape Architect for his or 
her advice and services for making de¬ 
tailed surveys, plans and specifications for 
the location of Buildings, Walks, Drives, 
Service Areas, etc., and laying out Planting 
Groups or other areas to be planted or im¬ 
proved. 
Before beginning, the Property Owner 
should know how to make his improve¬ 
ments, where to locate the Buildings, 
Walks, Drives, etc., and what to plant for 
the particular climatic conditions, and how 
the plantings should be arranged so as to 
get the correct effect in years to come. 
Permanent Shade Trees should be pre¬ 
served for background or skyline effects 
to frame the buildings. 
To secure accurate information, the 
Property Owner should consult someone 
who has had experience in Landscape Ar¬ 
chitecture and Construction, and who has 
a full knowledge of soil and climatic con¬ 
ditions and the planting of Trees, Shrubs, 
Plants, etc. 
In these days of much travel, people 
often see many features in Homes and 
Gardens in other places that they would 
like to carry out in and around their own 
Buildings or Grounds. They may plan 
these improvements without the services of 
a Landscape or Building Architect; how¬ 
ever, it would be to their advantage to call 
in their local Architect to work out the de¬ 
tails. Especially would it be to their ad¬ 
vantage to consult their Landscape Archi¬ 
tect as to the adaptability of the Landscape 
Material before the planting is done. ^ 
Today, the home owner is not satisfied 
until home grounds are planned and planted 
with suitable evergreens. This is also true 
of School, Library and Courthouse grounds. 
Parks and other Civic grounds. 
LOCATING DESIRABLE PROP¬ 
ERTIES 
When a person is considering the pur¬ 
chase of a site for a Home, or the location 
of Public or Private Enterprises, the Grade 
Elevations, Drainage Problems, the pre¬ 
servation of Natural Trees and Shrubs, 
background or skyline effects, hills, woods, 
and all other existing conditions are taken 
into consideration before the purchase is 
made. 
Before any improvements are begun, a 
Topographical Survey should be made, 
showing the contour of the land, low and 
high points, all natural Trees, slopes, open 
areas, etc. Very often some undesirable 
feature can be made into a beauty spot 
—an unsightly gulley may be made into 
a naturalistic Lily Pool, or a mound or 
small hill may be utilized for an exquisite 
Rock Garden. The services of a competent 
Landscape Architect are required for this 
kind of work, as the average person who 
buys property would consider these things 
as defects, and would immediately begin 
figuring on filling up the gulley or leveling 
down the mound or hill. The Building Ar¬ 
chitect and the Landscape Architect should 
work together in locating the buildings, 
etc. on the property to obtain the right 
effects in the Landscape setting, as well as 
to present the right air current, light and 
natural conditions for certain rooms of the 
buildings, etc. 
