. Manual of gardening; a practical guide to the making of home grounds and the growing of flowers, fruits, and vegetables for home use . ngof grounds and the beauty of landscapes. He will see that a bushor flower-bed that is no part of any general purpose or design —that is, which does not contribute to the making of a picture— might better never have been planted. For myself, I wouldrather have a bare and open pasture than such a yard as thatshown in Fig. 9, even though it contained the choicest plantsof every land. The pasture would at least be plain and restfuland unpretentious; but the yar
. Manual of gardening; a practical guide to the making of home grounds and the growing of flowers, fruits, and vegetables for home use . ngof grounds and the beauty of landscapes. He will see that a bushor flower-bed that is no part of any general purpose or design —that is, which does not contribute to the making of a picture— might better never have been planted. For myself, I wouldrather have a bare and open pasture than such a yard as thatshown in Fig. 9, even though it contained the choicest plantsof every land. The pasture would at least be plain and restfuland unpretentious; but the yard would be full of effort andfidget. Reduced to a single expression, all this means that the great-est artistic value in planting lies in the effect of the mass, andnot in the individual plant. A mass has the greater valuebecause it presents a much greater range and variety of forms,colors, shades, and textures, because it has sufficient extent ordimensions to add structural character to a place, and becauseits features are so continuous and so well blended that the mindis not distracted by incidental and irrelevant ideas. Two. 20
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