The 1917 Reptonian- an annual publication representative of the work in the professional course of landscape gardening at the University of Illinois (1917) (14595196347)

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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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under five mainheads; surveying, engineering construction, roads and pavements, plantingplans, and garden details. A preliminary course is given covering the field of landscape survey-ing, in which practical experience in handling the level, transit, and planetable is provided. Following this the student takes up the study of con-struction which includes problems in earthwork, grading, drainage, watersupply, and sewage systems. The first work in roads and pavements isgiven in the construction, but a later course is given in which this phase ofthe work is studied more thoroughly. Planting plans from gardens toparks inclusive are worked out with careful attention to climatic conditionsand the type of problem. In connection with garden design, constructiondrawings and specifications are required for garden details. This train-ing is concluded in the senior year when office practice is taken up and theknowledge previously gained is put to a practical test. The 19 17 R ept onian Eighty-one
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Eighty-two The 19 17 R ept onian Planting Design R. L. McKown LAKE FOREST PARK Planting design is a comparatively new thing to the layman, and forthis reason, planting plans are sometimes hard to explain. It is the onemeans of expression which is strictly the 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. I