The 

 Art of Landscape Architecture 



INTRODUCTION 



HAVING studied carefully the works and the 

 method of working of the Creator, the de- 

 signer of a landscape can bring into successful 

 play the great forces of nature, and, subordinating 

 his own personality, can secure for his work an 

 undying vitality, which can only follow from such a 

 direct reliance on the resources of the Infinite. In 

 every difficult work the key-note of success lies, of 

 course, in the idea of thorough subordination; but it 

 must be an intelligent penetrative subordination, an 

 industrious, ardently artistic, and sleeplessly active 

 ministry that is constantly seeking for an opportunity 

 to do some little thing to help forward the great result 

 on which nature is lavishing its powers of creation. "^ 



' Concerning Lawn Planting, Calvert Vaux. 



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