III. ENGLISH, FRENCH AND AMERICAN DESIGN. 



As we go forward with the years we may follow the devel- 

 opment in the landscape design of France and England, both 

 countries feeling to a more or less degree the influence of the 

 Italian renaissance, France even more than England. In the 

 latter country more evidence of mediaeval influence and 



THE GROUNDS AND PALACE OF VERSAILLES 



motives are to be noted. In the Italian villa and its grounds 

 we have a single and very highly developed unit of rather 

 limited size larger than the mediaeval unit to be sure, but 

 still domestic in its scale. In France, while this Italian in- 

 fluence is noted at first; it soon spread to a much more vast 

 conception. The motives of the great French landscape de- 

 signers were the wealth and power of their nobility and their 

 desire to express these two things in the surroundings of their 

 palaces and chateaux by the extent of their finished grounds. 

 They deviated from the Mediaeval and Italian designs by 

 adding unit after unit. 



