4 ^LANDSCAPE GARDENING 



public taste and the creation of a demand for in- 

 telligent landscape-designing. 



It is necessary to recognize at the outset that 

 love for nature, admiration of a beautiful view, 

 and delight in the brilliant colors of flowers, are 

 only a slight part of the equipment of a landscape- 

 designer. These are essential indeed, but without 

 further equipment the landscape-man will make 

 pointless suggestions and create ludicrous designs. 



In order to make a worthy design, discrimina- 

 tion must be employed, and that is always based 

 upon sound knowledge and no slight experience. 

 Consequently, the landscape-man must familiarize 

 himself with all phases of his art, from the con- 

 tagious diseases of plants to the proper methods of 

 road construction. This is not the work of a tyro, 

 nor of one who gushes about the sovereignty of Art, 

 with a capital A, and proclaims his superiority to 

 all rules. It is for the careful student, the well- 

 balanced man of taste and cultivation, to find his 

 work and pleasure in landscape-design. 



In working out a problem in landscape archi- 

 tecture, the factors with which the designer is most 

 concerned may be roughly divided into seven 

 groups, which fall naturally into two large divi- 

 sions. 



