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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE 



Relatively little of this grand but superhuman style spread 

 elsewhere, although it is somewhat in evidence at Hampton 

 Court in England and Schoenbrunn near Vienna, and Wil- 

 helmshohe are respectively Austrian and German examples 

 of this influence. This influence of LeNotre's style is evident 

 not only in the later work of Haussman and Alphand and 

 Andre at Paris, but to a certain degree of L/ Enfant in his 

 plans for the city of Washington. 



PLAN AND SECTION MONTACUTE HOUSE, ENGLAND 



English landscape design was as a rule more human, more 

 influenced by mediaeval motives, and there was less emphasis 

 placed upon the strictest axial and formal motives, and dis- 

 tinctly less symmetry than in either the French or Italian 

 work. There was a good deal of unity withal and a very dis- 

 tinctive difference is shown as regards the planting. In the 

 French formal work the gravel paths are the basis of the 

 design and the parterres, fountain basins, pools and other 

 details are laid out or set out, as it were, in the midst of the 

 gravel walks which are always very much in evidence. In 



