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SIZE AND EXTENT OF AN ESTATE 



IT should appear from what has been already said 

 that a beautiful piece of landscape gardening may 

 be of many sizes from the village yard to the 

 estate of thousands of acres. 



Many considerations, however, need weighing in 

 each case, although the general laws of arrangement 

 hold true throughout. These laws consist in the estab- 

 lishment of certain types of treatment, each a unit, 

 all varied continually, lapping over, contrasting with 

 and contradicting each other ; built on the lines of nature 

 yet really not nature, but nevertheless faithful to her 

 spirit. The treatment of these various large or small 

 country places and village lawns is chiefly, therefore, 

 a question of relations between different parts. 



Therefore there should be a proper rhythm in these 

 relations, a spacing, a notation that naturally applies to 

 all kinds of design whether it be music, poetry, painting, 

 architecture, or landscape gardening. The true spirit 

 of design lies in the balance and poise of the parts, 

 their variation, whether rapid or slow, tense and violent, 

 or suave and tranquil. 



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