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banks. His work should always be undertaken with 

 the advice and assistance of an able landscape-de- 

 signer. River scenery has real value and should 

 not be destroyed without substituting in its place 

 scenery of equal or greater value. Rivers are not 

 only attractive features in a landscape but they 

 serve for recreation in many ways. Their use as 

 sources of power should not destroy their other 

 possibilities. There are cases in which the recrea- 

 tional value is far greater than any utilitarian one, 

 and the destruction of the former for the sake of the 

 latter is a loss. 



LAKES 



Like rivers, lakes are naturally beautiful. Their 

 shores are so shaped as to withstand the action of 

 water and ice. The vegetation along their margins 

 is generally pleasing when they are first discovered. 

 The outlines given them by nature are nearly always 

 satisfactory. The natural beauty of lakes, however, 

 like that of rivers, is subject to dangers on account 

 of the utilitarian possibilities of these bodies of still 

 water. Perhaps the greatest injury to their general 

 appearance is due to the construction of ice-houses. 

 These are often unnecessarily obtrusive. If they 



