Gardening in California, landscape and flower . an any-thing our gardening has yet produced. Those who have under-taken to do what we are now considering—that is, to plant apleasure-garden and lawns—and are in doubt as to how to estab-lish the lines of the lawns or the groups of trees, shrubs andflowers, may get invaluable suggestions as to how to arrangethem in harmonious composition if they will do as our bestpainters do,—namely, go into the natural forests of our hills andhillsides, or the meadows and haughs of our valleys, and select,from the innumerable beautiful scenes, the one whose bea
Gardening in California, landscape and flower . an any-thing our gardening has yet produced. Those who have under-taken to do what we are now considering—that is, to plant apleasure-garden and lawns—and are in doubt as to how to estab-lish the lines of the lawns or the groups of trees, shrubs andflowers, may get invaluable suggestions as to how to arrangethem in harmonious composition if they will do as our bestpainters do,—namely, go into the natural forests of our hills andhillsides, or the meadows and haughs of our valleys, and select,from the innumerable beautiful scenes, the one whose beauty mostappeals to them and which seems to best fit the general outlineof the site for which the plans are being prepared. Then let themeasurements of this part of Natures garden be carefull)^ taken,figuring what are its length, and its breadth; what are the depthand width of the grassy bays which seem to meander through theForest; also the form and shape which these bays assume. Itwill be found that Nature seldom runs straight lines and. The Preliminary Plans shaped curves. Let the woody promontories be measured, figur-ing how far each one projects into the meadow and noting howNature has done its planting,—how far one tree is from theother, and how harmonious the whole plan is. After having sketched into a rough map all of the trees withtheir names and characteristics, the different shrub-growths shouldnext be similarly studied and sketched in, especially noting howthey are distributed. After these, and any other data whichseem to be of importance in the general effect, are carefullyplatted, let this rough sketch be laid out to scale and reduced orenlarged to fit the plan for the proposed grounds. If the propor-tions of the original are faithfully carried out and imitated inthe form and outlines of the lawns and in the character andplanting of the trees and undergrowths, the result will be adelight to the owner and an artistically laid out property. There are numerous
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