50 Xan&scape Brcbitecture 



facts are bound to achieve at best an inappropri- 

 ate and unsatisfactory design. Who so intends to 

 build up a landscape must do so out of the actual 

 materials from which that particular landscape is to 

 be created, and he must be familiar with them in 

 every particular. Both in plan and execution he 

 works quite otherwise than the painter on his can- 

 vas; he deals with realities. The beauty of a bit 

 of real nature, which rendered by the art of the 

 painter can only be partly hinted at, cannot on a 

 plan be given at all; I am inclined to believe, on the 

 contrary that except in a very flat region where no 

 views are possible and little can be achieved anyhow, 

 a plan which is agreeable to look at with lines pleas- 

 ing to the eye cannot truly stand for beauty in nature. 

 Ivly experience is that in order to achieve fine results 

 in landscape gardening one is often obliged to select 

 lines which have no charm on a plan drawn on 

 paper." ^ 



In order to approach properly the consideration of 

 the laying out of any place it is well to go farther than 

 the contour map and secure photographs of features 

 that are characteristic of its scenery, and that may be 

 memoranda to be used in forming a mental picture of 

 what the final scheme should be. This picture will be 

 at first vague, but after considerable study of the 

 existing landscape, dreaming over it f you choose, 

 looking at it from every angle, measuring the contour 



' Hints on Landscape Gardening, Prince Piickler. 



