LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE 



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not. We should use these right principles to secure distinct- 

 ive American types of work. Let us now briefly consider 

 some of the many classes or types of problems in landscape 

 design met with in the practice of this profession in America 

 today, and note how we are helped in their solution by this 

 study of the past. 



PLAN OF BRICK WALL HOUSE AND GROUNDS, ENGLAND 



Note the mediaeval influences, the fittings of existing conditions, and the 

 more or less disregard of exact symmetry. 



In the first place what may be termed domestic landscape 

 architecture, the designing of suburban and country estates 

 and grounds. How varied these are, located on the rugged 

 coasts of Maine, the tropic sands of Florida, amid the moun- 

 tains and on the level prairies and amidst the semi-tropic 

 conditions of the Pacific Slope. How make rules for such 

 varieties of conditions? Manifestly no rule, of thumb will 



