34 LANDSCAPE GARDENING 



location from their very nature. A sun-dial, to be 

 of any service, must be placed in an open space, or 

 it will not receive the rays of the sun. A statue, 

 on the other hand, looks rather pitiable when ex- 

 posed to the noonday glare, with no shade at hand. 

 Any delicacy of detail is lost in a statue placed in 

 an exj^osed position, as the reflection of the sun 

 from its smooth surface is too dazzling to permit 

 careful appreciation. 



The naturalization of a feature may be carried 

 to absurd extremes. For instance, an Italian 

 well-head might be introduced into Norman-Eng- 

 lish surroundings. If the landscape-designer felt 

 that the nationality of the well-head should be car- 

 ried rigidly throughout the scheme, the result 

 would be an Italian design which could not fail to 

 be in discord with the dwellings for which the gar- 

 den was intended. The well-head might, how- 

 ever, be considered as an exotic accent only, and in 

 that case could be harmonized merely by colors 

 and shapes. That would seem to be the only sen- 

 sible solution. 



The same principles of composition obtain in 

 landscape that hold true of every other art: each 

 part must be subordinate to the whole ; every part 

 of a design must articulate with every other part, 



