PLANTS FOR USE ON THE OREGON AND WASHINGTON COASTAL PLAIN : Page 1044


The author has attempted in this glossary to compile a set of terms orwords commonly used in landscape literature pertaining to general plantingdesign. Landscape architecture is one of the younger professions. It has nodistinct vocabulary so recognized by the dictionary of to-day.

Such words as establish, naturalize, open allee, pleached allee, puddle, andleggy as applied to the language of this profession require a definition otherthan those commonly given to such words. The definitions here given arethose which are generally accepted by practicing landscape architects.

No attempt has been made to define a large group of other words which areused in the general field of landscape construction work as differentiated fromplanting design and its execution.

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