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according to use which naturally occur in the practice of landscape ar- 

 chitects in our time and in our condition of society are : the garden ; 

 the private estate; the "land subdivision," or development of land 

 for residential use ; the country club and country hotel grounds ; the 

 grounds of colleges and institutions, hospitals, and other public or semi- 

 public building groups ; the grounds of public buildings ; exposition 

 grounds ; amusement parks ; zoological parks and botanical gardens ; 

 cemeteries ; playgrounds ; the smaller intown parks ; the larger coun- 

 try parks on the outskirts of our cities, and the great landscape reser- 

 vations scattered throughout the country. 



It is, of course, quite impossible in an introduction to the study of 

 landscape design to discuss all the classes of designs which meet even 

 all the more important uses of our modern American society. We shall 

 consider in this chapter four types of landscape designs : the garden, the 

 estate, land subdivision for residential purposes, and landscape parks 

 and reservations. These types are chosen because they may exemplify 

 both humanized and naturalistic design, and because they show the 

 meeting by the private citizen of two of his most important needs, his 

 dwelling and his private outdoor esthetic pleasure, and the meeting by 

 the community of the needs of the citizens for amenity of dwelling and 

 for outdoor recreation. These examples show, too, the way in which the 

 field of landscape architecture merges into those of horticulture, archi- 

 tecture, engineering, and city planning ; and in the section on land 

 subdivision, the discussion considers how far it is possible to translate 

 landscape beauty into terms of economic value, to create it at a certain 

 cost and to sell it in the market at a profit. 



