28 Xan5scape Hrcbitecture 



(The river scenes of Muskau were changed with great 

 effect by diverting an arm of the main hne to another 

 course leading a long distance around by the castle, 

 enlarging the moat (see illustration), and so flowing 

 on through several pools to the end of the artificial water 

 far above where it again takes the main and original 

 direction as shown in the illustration^ To-day it all 

 looks, not only natural, but as if it had never been 

 otherwise. 



Another plea for the natiiral style will be found in 

 Olmsted and Vaux's Annual Report to the Prospect 

 Park Commissioners, January, 1871: 



"As the park has come more in use, new habits 

 and customs and with them new tastes have been 

 developed. There is already many times as much 

 pleasure driving as there was five years ago, and not 

 a few persons are more attracted to the park by what 

 is to be seen on the road, than by any conscious 

 enjoyment of inanimate nature to be seen from it, 

 consequently a new class of comment on the design 

 is now sometimes heard: unfavourable comparisons 

 are made between the park [Prospect Park] and cer- 

 tain foreign pleasure grounds, both for the lack of 

 opportunity for enjoying the sight of a large gay 

 assemblage, and its entire want of stateliness and 

 artistic grandeur. In these comparisons and in the 

 demands which they suggest there are important 

 considerations which are generally overlooked. 



"Jn southern Europe^where the ground is parched. 



