. Manual of gardening; a practical guide to the making of home grounds and the growing of flowers, fruits, and vegetables for home use . 57. An old-fashioned doorway. effective than twenty flowersin the center of the lawn. More depends on the posi-tions that plants occupy withreference to each other and tothe structural design of the place,than on the intrinsic merits ofthe plants themselves. Landscape gardening, then,is the embellishment ofgrounds in such a way thatthey will have a nature-like orlandscape effect. The flowersand accessories may heightenand accelerate the effect, butthey should
. Manual of gardening; a practical guide to the making of home grounds and the growing of flowers, fruits, and vegetables for home use . 57. An old-fashioned doorway. effective than twenty flowersin the center of the lawn. More depends on the posi-tions that plants occupy withreference to each other and tothe structural design of the place,than on the intrinsic merits ofthe plants themselves. Landscape gardening, then,is the embellishment ofgrounds in such a way thatthey will have a nature-like orlandscape effect. The flowersand accessories may heightenand accelerate the effect, butthey should not contradict it. In a landscape picture flow-ers are incidents. They addemphasis, supply color, givevariety and finish; they arethe ornaments, but the lawnand the mass-plantings makethe framework. One flowerin the border, and made anincident of the picture, is more. An informally treated stream. CHAPTER III EXECUTION OF SOME OF THE LANDSCAPE FEATURES The general lay-out of a small home property having nowbeen considered, we may discuss the practical operations ofexecuting the plan. It is not intended in this chapter to discussthe general question of how to handle the soil: that discussioncomes in Chapter IV; nor in detail how to handle plants: thatoccurs in Chapters V to X; but the subjects of grading, layingout of walks and drives, executing the border plantings, and themaking of lawns, may be briefly considered. Of course the instructions given in a book, however complete,are very inadequate and unsatisfactory as compared with theadvice of a good experienced person. It is not always possibleto find such a person, however; and it is no little satisfaction tothe homemaker if he can feel that he can handle the work him-self, even at the expense of some mistakes. The grading. The first consideration is to grade the land. Grading isvery expensive, e
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