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Engaging a Landscape Architect 
(Continued from page 82) 
grading plans, and all plans for construc¬ 
tion of seats, pools, steps, etc. The 
number of these plans and their com¬ 
plexity depend upon the complexity of 
the work. They may be ever so simple 
.—in fact, sometimes there may be no 
plan at all, for the garden may be 
staked out right on the grounds and 
verbal instructions given to the gar¬ 
dener. And, unless there is much con¬ 
struction, the outside help of contractors 
is not always necessary where the gar¬ 
dener is able to carry out the work. 
And then there is 
the planting plan. So 
many people do not 
seem to understand 
the value of a plant¬ 
ing plan. I know of 
wealthy men who 
buy valuable paint¬ 
ings, but have ob¬ 
jected to pay for 
planting plans because 
they did not realize 
that planting plans 
may hold within their 
complexity of names 
a whole series of 
wonderful pictures. A 
planting plan is a 
record of an artistic 
conception. In reali¬ 
ty it is more than a 
record of one concep¬ 
tion, for it portrays 
at one time the effects 
of an entire season. 
And it is more than 
that, for it is a guide 
to the landscape ar¬ 
chitect when he super¬ 
vises the planting. The 
handling of plants on 
a plan, and then in 
the garden, is similar 
to the brush work of 
a painter. It is a 
matter of individual 
choice and tempera¬ 
ment. That is why 
some landscape archi¬ 
tects who are particu¬ 
larly interested in 
flower gardens have 
to supervise the plant¬ 
ing personally so that 
their conceptions 
which are rendered in 
a plan may be rightly 
interpreted upon the 
ground. This is not 
always possible, how¬ 
ever, and must be en¬ 
trusted to assistants, 
who may do it well if 
they work in the 
spirit of eager disciple- 
ship. You have no 
idea how much a 
matter of individual 
feeling a planting plan 
is. I formerly inter¬ 
preted plans for sev¬ 
eral landscape architects, and yet I find 
that my own plans have but little 
similarity to any of theirs. 
Planting lists and orders accompany 
each planting plan. Some landscape 
architects give out their whole planting 
lists to a nursery, who will fill all the 
orders. Other landscape architects do 
all this ordering themselves and make 
every substitution themselves. I like 
this second method best myself. It 
sometimes involves a great deal of time 
and trouble, but I have always found it 
worth while in the 
end. 
A garden is, per¬ 
haps, the most perish¬ 
able product of art. 
It is subject to the 
caprices of nature and 
of men and its in¬ 
herent beauty may be 
lost in a season. For 
this reason it is ad¬ 
visable to retain the 
services of the land¬ 
scape architect, when¬ 
ever it is possible, so 
that the garden may 
retain its beauty. The 
flowers are not only 
growing and spread¬ 
ing and sometimes 
dying out, but there 
are bulbs to be added 
and annuals to renew 
—and once you real¬ 
ize the infinite amount 
of detail there is to 
be taken care of you 
will appreciate the 
yearly supervision of 
the landscape archi¬ 
tect. For this service 
the landscape archi¬ 
tect will sometimes 
make a yearly retain¬ 
ing fee—and come as 
often as he finds it 
necessary—or, again, 
he may simply charge 
you for the number 
of visits that he 
makes. 
I like this main¬ 
tenance work very 
much. It has given 
me an opportunity 
not only of making 
some very firm friends 
among my clients, 
but has given me the 
joy of watching my 
gardens develop in 
beauty and pleasure¬ 
giving capacity. 
The planting plan is 
usually executed by 
one of the architect’s 
assistants. This shows 
the main path in the 
Alexandre garden 
