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An architectural note, such as a pillar, helps 
compose the landscape picture. In this 
garden the view is framed by the trees on 
one side and the pillar on the other 
That flatness is necessarily dull is disproved 
by the way this view has been treated. Tall 
trees planted in receding sequence give a 
sense of distance and afford relief to the 
horizontal sky line 
Where one’s house stands on a wooded or shrub-covered hillside an avenue can be 
cut to open up the vista. Bv preserving tall trees in the foreground, the horizontal 
lines of the distant hills are given a pleasing relief 
will not be out of place to say something of 
the way in which composition can be 
achieved when the foreground is a window, 
a gateway, or other aperture in a house. 
Care should always be taken in designing a 
house to provide for good exits. The firm 
architectural lines of a doorway, porch, 
loggia or arcade should be made the con- 
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obtained by the copious use of poplars; their 
tall, slender forms, planted in lines along 
the edges of roads or canals, lead the eye 
onward down endless perspectives. Flat 
countries call for some sort of avenue treat¬ 
ment, carried out either in trees or in some 
form of architectural feature. 
We have so far dealt exclusively with the 
treatment of a view from the garden. It 
