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Excerpt from Landscape Gardening Studies
A wind-swept knoll with distant views should not be obstructed by many trees. On the other hand, when a nook at the back or one side of the house suggests a garden or a retired valley, trees and shrubs should further emphasize, perfect, and complete the sense of seclusion.
This faculty of design in landscape gardening is, of course, the highest and most difficult attain ment of the art. The promptings of its suggestion can be trusted, however, only by those who have sought with long and diligent study its manifold secrets. The habits and strange vagaries of individuality characterizing different trees, shrubs, and flowering plants must be well understood. The treatment of the special soils in which these plants are to grow needs attention that many fail to give. The change of the surface of the ground.
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