30 Hints on Landscape Gardening 



but the means defeated the end, since they osten- 

 tatiously pointed out what they should have ar- 

 tistically concealed. Apart from this enclosure, 

 which is necessary for protection, it is obvious 

 that every interesting feature of the distant land- 

 scape should be included in the park, all outer 

 rays concentrating into this focus. Distant views 

 of great extent, lying away beyond the actual 

 grounds, give an appearance ot measureless extent. 

 When such opportunities are skillfully utilized, 

 they greatly surpass the reality. They must, how- 

 ever, be so managed that one should never be- 

 come aware of the intervening park boundaries. 

 Moreover, such special features should never be 

 seen twice in the same way. For instance, many 

 partial glimpses may be given of a distant hill, 

 but only once should the hill be revealed in its 

 entirety. The same applies to the town or city. 

 Such effective planning, affording glimpses which 

 tempt one's imagination and excite the pleasure 

 of anticipation, and compositions in which each 

 part is interdependent, are far more difficult to 

 achieve than full revelations. When people stum- 

 ble on a remarkably beautiful view and, after lin- 

 gering long, remark, ** What a pity that great tree 

 stands in the foreground, how much grander the 

 view would be if it were absent," they would be 

 much astonished if one did them the service to 

 hew away the tree. They would have a stretch 

 of country before them, but no longer a picture 

 — for a garden in the great style is really a pic- 

 ture gallery, and a picture demands a Irame. 



