LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE 



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the best English work the effects secured were quite the 

 opposite. There is always the background of turf and foliage 

 masses upon which the paths are laid out as a much more in- 

 cidental feature. 



With this very brief and altogether inadequate resume of 

 the more salient principles of earlier landscape design before 

 us, let us now turn for a few moments to the result of all this 

 as expressed in the landscape architecture of the present day, 



GROUNDS OF MONTACUTE HOUSE IN ENGLAND 

 Note the predominance of greensward and foliage 



especially in America. Our problems here are many and 

 varied and far removed in the character of the surroundings, 

 climate and other conditions from almost all of those we have 

 mentioned. The trained landscape architect in America 

 uses his study of these earlier problems if he has the right 

 spirit as a guide to correct principles solely. These earlier 

 European landscape designers did this in their own case and 

 were constantly and indefatigably searching for right prin- 

 ciples of design applicable to the particular problem in hand. 

 The best of them never slavishly copied others and we should 



