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Landscape Planning t4 an Art 
hen a new house is built the carpenters do not 
take lumber and stone and place them at ran- 
dom, hoping blindly for the desired result. Of 
course not—to insure a beautiful, well-designed 
structure, the whole thing has been carefully work- 
ed out on paper beforehand. And so it must be 
with your garden. Good landscaping doesn’t just 
happen! Behind every beautiful home grounds is a 
comprehensive, carefully thought out plan. 
Landscape planning is an art, only that the 
artist works with living trees, shrubs and flowers 
instead of color pigments on a palette. The painter 
works in only two dimensions—the landscape de- 
signer works in FOUR. The painter is able to 
see his results immediately—the landscape designer 
must sometimes wait years. 
As the landscape designer develops the garden 
picture he must not only know the form, charac- 
ter, flower and leaf color of each plant but he must 
know their cultural habits as well. Thus it is 
apparent that planting by a trained expert is es- 
sential, for the knowledge of how plants should 
be used is much more important than the plants 
themselves. ; 
We are happy to announce that, with the re- 
turn of skilled help, we can accept a limited num- 
ber of landscape plantings this spring. Our services 
include every detail of planting layout, plant selec- 
tion and the actual planting job itself in April. 
Our very extensive knowledge of plants and 
plantings, born of many years’ experience in mak- 
ing and maintaining gardens in this tricky climate, 
will save you many times our moderate fee for 
design service. 
