. Manual of gardening; a practical guide to the making of home grounds and the growing of flowers, fruits, and vegetables for home use. Gardening. 57. An old-fashioned doorway. effective than twenty flowers in the center of the lawn. More depends on the posi- tions that plants occupy with reference to each other and to the structural design of the place, than on the intrinsic merits of the plants themselves. Landscape gardening, then, is the embellishment of grounds in such a way that they will have a nature-like or landscape effect. The flowers and accessories may heighten and accelerate the
. Manual of gardening; a practical guide to the making of home grounds and the growing of flowers, fruits, and vegetables for home use. Gardening. 57. An old-fashioned doorway. effective than twenty flowers in the center of the lawn. More depends on the posi- tions that plants occupy with reference to each other and to the structural design of the place, than on the intrinsic merits of the plants themselves. Landscape gardening, then, is the embellishment of grounds in such a way that they will have a nature-like or landscape effect. The flowers and accessories may heighten and accelerate the effect, but they should not contradict it. In a landscape picture flow- ers are incidents. They add emphasis, supply color, give variety and finish; they are the ornaments, but the lawn and the mass-plantings make the framework. One flower in the border, and made an incident of the picture, is more. 58. An informally treated Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954. New York, The Macmillan Company
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