. Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. 892. 1245 An open area of erass space body of bordering plantations which will usuilh frame the Lawn and the different pictures that will appear m any properly unified scheme of landscape gardening. The art of the designer will display itself in determining the relativ
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. 892. 1245 An open area of erass space body of bordering plantations which will usuilh frame the Lawn and the different pictures that will appear m any properly unified scheme of landscape gardening. The art of the designer will display itself in determining the relative sizes of the Lawns and these enclosing or framing plantations. A careful eye must, of course, be given to the individuality of the Lawn itself, which should never be allowed to merge into the neighboring plantations. A like principle applies to all kinds of art âit is fundamental and vital in its character. The reader may fancy that its application would tend to limit the beauty of landscape gardening by eliminating cer- tain features of natural beauty, such as trees, shrubs and beds of flowers, but, if he will look at an open Lawn with discerning and sympathetic eyes, he will find that the "moving cloud-shadows, waving grass, rich patches of dark and light green, studded with the starry radi- ance of the humble flora of the grass, and the hundred incidents ..f M:i7iii_- â â y subdued color and form that ap- pear nii !'â â '1-' ! :tTt open meadow," need no added beauty ^ i i r iK to perfect their nearly unap- proaciiai ' So important does the writer considn- i!i. â . mii! ;uiil peculiar beauty of the Lawn as distinKiii>*lii-'l trciin that of any other part of the home domain, that he always feels inclined to term it the true focus of the picture, the central point of inter- est in any landscape ijardening design. This Inn I- ihi r:i,, . it Ijehooves us always to literally leave )m' - i . â 1 or clod of earth unfilled and unfertili ilitain a satisfactory op
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