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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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he province of the landscape gar-dener—plants are to him what colors are to the landscape painter, and withthem he must accomplish his aims. It is necessary, therefore, to differentiate in the use to which plantingmay be put in the various problems which confront the landscape man.Park planting offers an opportunity to paint in broad sweeps of color—itmay be compared to oil paintings. To get the best effect of an oil painting,one must stand away from the picture—so with park planting. Plants ofheavier texture are planted in greater masses and less attention is given toeach particular plant, for in park planting, as in oil painting, it is the gen-eral effect of the whole for which we are striving and not for each smalldetail. In the park planting plan here reproduced, it will be seen that the de-signer has followed these cardinal points above outlined, and has secureda delightful atmosphere of informality without loss of dignity to thescheme. The 19 17 R ep t o ni an Eighty-three
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Eiffhty-four The 1917 Reptonian Planting Design R. L. McKown B. H. Clark PRIVATE PLACES Small private places have no large open areas from which to viewmasses of plant material, and consequently planting which will bear closeinspection must be used. Some 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. Ap

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