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-7- <br />representative of estate gardens in general included the following <br />list. Phelps incorporated these elements into the gardens he did <br />in the area. <br />o Geometric forms and fanciful garden shapes such as a 4 leaf <br />clover <br />o Borders of the gardens and lawns were often hedges <br />o Color coordinated gardens <br />o Architectural structures as focal points of the garden area <br />such as gates, gazebos, garden houses <br />o Rose gardens <br />o Perrenial gardens <br />o Garden walls or hedges as enclosures that define "outdoor" <br />rooms <br />o Water features such as pools and fountains <br />o Large canopy trees <br />o Highly manicured lawns <br />In developing gardens incorporating these elements, Phelps paid <br />particular attention to proportion, or the relationship of one <br />element to another. Phelp_ was concerned with "the scale with <br />which one thing is related to another, the house with the lawn, the <br />gazebo with the rise garden, the pool with the terrace or the steps <br />with the wall." It is the committee's desire to continue this <br />tradition of "proportion" wit'i the Noerenberg site. This con--ept <br />of spatial relationships ca.i he seen in the proposed plan for the <br />garden in the transition from the visitor center to the formal <br />floral display area, to the manicured estate grounds, to the more <br />natural edges of the estate. The plan includes several elements of <br />