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CHAPTER XIL 



GENEEAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE LAYING-OUT 

 AND IMPEO^^EMENT OF GEOUNDS. 



Landscape Gardening. — Analogies to Landscape Painting. — Com- 

 parative power over Materials. — Simplicity and Multiplicity of 

 Points of View. — Processes whoUy and partly tentative.— Pro- 

 priety of revision. — Utility of plans. — Hazard of preparatory 

 operations. 



In the preceding chapters we have adhered^ as closely as 

 possible, to practical views of the subjects which we have 

 treated, and we have carefully abstained from aU merely 

 theoretical reasoning. Our preparatory studies, how- 

 ever, as well as our experience in the exercise of the 

 profession, have led us to some general conclusions re- 

 garding the principles and the practice of the art, which 

 it may be proper to bring under the notice of the reader, 

 both as conducing to the unity and as adding to the 

 completeness of the work. To a brief exposition of these 

 conclusions, then, we shall devote this chapter ; and we 

 shaU allow our remarks on principles to run at once into 

 their practical applications. 



The name Landscape Gardening, usually given to the 



