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Title: The 1917 Reptonian: an annual publication representative of the work in the professional course of landscape gardening at the University of Illinois
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: The Reptonian Board of Publication, The University Landscape Architect's Soceity R.R. Root Chapter, and The Faculty and Students in Landscape Gardening
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Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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provision may well be made in this type ofplanting for a winter effect, so that all interest in the planting may notdie out with the passing of the flowering season, and the place then appearbare and ugly. Another important factor in the planting of small homegrounds is the preservation of a proper sky-line. The keeping of plantingin scale is a problem which is often neglected by the amateur for it is easyto forget that shrubs, though small when planted, will soon grow muchhigher and screen out views that are desirable. In these planting designs of small private places, the shrub lines havebeen used to define lawn areas, and soften the hard lines of architecture,thus forming a transition between the house, the lawn, and the street. Aperennial garden for summer interest has been provided in both cases, andthe planting has been selected with a view to providing an interest in thescheme during the winter month as well as the summer. The 1917 Reptonian Eighty-five V.CY Ioq PvatniM Qaudch-
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Planting Plans for Private Places R. L. McKownB. H. Clark Eighty-six The 19 17 R eptonian R. L. McKownMildred W. Wright GARDEN DETAILS The design and preparation of working drawings of garden details isone of the smaller, yet very important divisions of garden design. It hasbeen said that the character of a garden is expressed by its details, andthat the prime issue in garden design is to express individuality and char-acter. Of course in the preliminary sketch, the details are merely locatedwith respect to their best position and use in the design, but the final de-tailed drawing is very complete in its specifications, so complete, in fact,that the contractor can easily understand at a glance what is required ofhim and carry out the construction accordingly. As will be seen from thedetail plates, a plan, elevation, and section are required. The principles ofharmony, beauty of line, proportion, and eternal fitness, emphasized inarchitectural construction are striven for in the designi

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