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into a coarser and cheaper material. Where no particular esthetic 

 appreciation may be expected in those charged with the upkeep of a 

 design, as for instance in some parks, an obvious formal scheme may 

 succeed, because for instance a dead tree in a row will be noticed and 

 replaced, whereas in the occult balance of an informal scheme a missing 

 tree ma)^ be replaced by another of different effect or not replaced at all. 

 One value which a style may have when used or adapted in new 

 surroundings depends upon the familiarity of the observer with the 

 style in its native place. An arrangement of an American country 

 place which suggests an English pastoral landscape has to a man 

 , familiar with England an added delight, because it calls to his mind 

 additional remembered beauties ; and the recent designs of estates 

 inspired by Italian examples * hold for lovers of Italy a pleasure and a 

 unity through association which is no small part of their charm. 



* Cf. the work of Mr. Piatt as illustrated in Monograph of the Work of Charles A. 

 Plait, with an Introduction by Royal Cortissoz, 1913. 



