56 Xan&scape Hrcbttecture 



Quand elle est en liberte, 

 La Nature est inimitable. 



Fenelon loved a "beau desert" and in his Dialogues 

 des Marts appears the following: "La Nature a ici je 

 ne sais quoi de brut qui plait et qui fait rever agre- 

 ablement." Fenelon also says: "On aime d'autant 

 plus purement alors qu'on aime sans sentir comme on 

 croit avec plus de merite lorsqu'on croit sans voir." 

 This state is not essentially different from that intel- 

 lectual love of God which Spinoza declares to be beyond 

 emotion. 



It may be thought that impressive effects can be 

 developed by making combinations of colour of the 

 foliage of trees and shrubs. But this leads to disap- 

 pointment because all such colours vary from year to 

 year according to the atmospheric and soil conditions, 

 fertility, heat, cold, etc. Prince Puckler has this to 

 say in his Hints on Landscape Gardening: 



''How far one may plant with the deliberate 

 intention of attaining artistic light and shade and 

 colour contrast, I will not venture to state. The 

 matter has great difficulties, and in my experience 

 these attempts if I went too far into detail have 

 seldom succeeded very well, and on the other hand, 

 plantations mixed quite recklessly often unfolded 

 the most unexpected charms; nay, they earned me 

 many compliments for my art wherein I was as 

 innocent as many a physician who has effected a 



