many jobs at the same time. If he has work of importance in widely scattered localities, he must have a resident superintendent on each job, at least during certain periods in the construction. The landscape architect is fortunate who has his work come to him in such a way that this superintendence may be distributed throughout the year, or who has so versatile a corps of assistants that they can turn their hand to drafting or superintendence as the work may demand.*

It is evident that the amount of detail that is expressed on plan and committed to writing, and the amount of detail which is left to be determined by the superintendent, depends on the possibility of deciding on this detail definitely beforehand, and on the capacity of the superintendent. In France and to some extent in England, a landscape architect's office is likely to make fewer and less definite plans than we do, and to trust more to skilled superintendence. When the growth of the profession in this country has produced more contractors skilled in this particular kind of work, and more men qualified to serve the landscape architect as skilled superintendents, the problem of the execution of work may be somewhat simplified, but it will always be true that if the landscape architect wishes to see his ideas fully realized in execution, he must to some degree superintend this execution himself.

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Very rarely is the landscape architect's work such that it produces Superintendthe effect he desires when the work of construction and planting called ence of Mainfor in the contract is finished. The growth of trees and flowers and turf must still be awaited before the result is complete, and skilled superintendence will still be necessary to guide this growth to the desired end. It is an excellent arrangement, therefore, if it can be provided that the landscape architect be retained by the client to watch over the work, at least until such time as the idea of the designer has so nearly reached its full expression that the client may thoroughly grasp it and be perhaps trusted to see that this expression is not thereafter destroyed. If, as is the case in public work, there is no one owner who can thus be trusted, it is vitally necessary that the esthetic ability to appreciate the design and the enthusiasm to maintain it should continually reside in some responsible hands.

* Cf. p. 335.

DRAWINGS TO ACCOMPANY APPENDIX, PART II

TYPICAL DRAWINGS FOR A LANDSCAPE JOB:

PLANS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SUBURBAN ESTATE

While these plans, with the exception of Drawing XXXVII, have been re-drawn in order that the figures upon them may be legible at the reduced scale at which they are shown, they are otherwise such drawings as might be prepared in the office of a reasonably efficient landscape architect during the progress of a piece of work of this kind.

În many cases it would be desirable, where the topographic map was prepared from elevations taken on the corners of cross-section squares, to show these points with their elevations on the topographic map for greater accuracy. In this case, however, the contours, together with the elevations of the ground at the foot of every tree which were given on the original map were sufficient for the use of the designer. Further detail in regard to the boulevard would have been given if it had not been certain from the first that there would be no road entrance on this side of the property.

The grading plan with its accompanying profile would be used directly, in connection with the specifications and the interpretation of these by the representative of the landscape architect on the ground, in the grading, removal of trees and shrubs, preparation of the soil, construction of roads and paths, arrangements for drainage, water-supply, and lighting of the grounds, and similar items of the construction. In the case of smaller or more definite and detailed things, like buildings and steps, bird bath, walls, arches, arrangement of paths in the flower garden, special paving in patterns, and so on, the grading plan shows the location and general proportions of these constructions; but special detailed plans at larger scale (no examples of which are given in this book) would be followed in their actual execution.

The planting plan shows the number of plants to be used, and in a general way their proposed locations on the ground. The planting in definite small areas, formal or informal, like the flower garden, the vicinity of the bird bath, the steps to the boulevard, would be shown in more detail on the planting plans at larger scale. The actual arrangement of the plants, however, the blending of one plant group into another, the whole study of the detailed relation of the plants to produce exactly the effect desired, under the particular local circumstances as they develop and with the particular stock as it is delivered from the nursery, all this is a matter of judgment in design on the part of the superintendent, and cannot be recorded on plan.

The planting list which accompanies the planting plan is not in the form in which it would be if it were to be used in an actual piece of work handled by a landscape architect's office. A list so used would ordinarily show the kinds of plants, the quantity of plants in each bed, the total quantity of each kind of plant, the spacing, the size and condition, the nursery at which the stock was obtained, the unit price, and the total cost, together with such notes as would be of further use in ordering the plants and in setting them out. In connection with the plan the list herewith, showing only the kinds of plants, gives, for what they may be worth, the ideas of one designer as to certain effects in planting as they worked out in this instance under the local conditions.