NURSERYMEN AND LANDSCAPE GARDENERS 
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LANDSCAPE DEPARTMENT 
T HE profession of landscape gardening is rapidly becoming as necessary as that of architecture. People 
are beginning to realize that the mere planting of trees, shrubs or flowers, without any carefully worked out 
scheme or plan is as absurd as trying to build a house without plans. The need is the same in both cases. 
\ou may plant your grounds with beautiful plants, but if they are not correctly arranged they may give anything 
but a pleasing effect. 
Grounds should be designed to form a picture, with some one point of interest as the main expression and 
everything else should be arranged to contribute its share toward this leading idea. The arrangement of plants 
to each other and to the design as a whole, the securing 
of harmony of colors, form, etc., the producing of pleasing 
winter as well as summer effects; these are all the attri¬ 
butes of a skilled landscape gardener. 
Landscape gardening is an art, and requires years of 
training not only in the varieties of plants, their habits, 
and different uses, but also in the kindred sciences such 
as civil engineering, architecture, painting, and soil 
physics. 
It is an art that is needed for large or small places 
and with this training, plans can be made to improve 
your surroundings and make pictures with nature’s 
own paints and pigments. 
An open lawn with shrubs and trees as a boundary 
