18 LANDSCAPE GARDEN SERIES 



pleasing compostion of line, is shown in Fig. 1 . The circulation be- 

 tween the several divisions has been studied so as to give easy access 

 from one to the other without interfering with their designed use. 

 The main entrance is from the bottom of the plan with the service to 

 the right. The unique garden court of Montacute House is one of 

 the famous landscape features of England and has been used as an 

 illustration of "what to do" in many books on Landscape Gardening. 

 All in all, this is, as a plan, beauty of architecture, and landscape 

 gardening interest, the best example of a real country place to be 

 found in England. 



While the economic and social conditions of America will always 

 keep our country places distinctive as a type from those of the old 

 world, it will not prevent the bringing in of the same principles in 

 their building that are basic for all good work in landscape architecture 

 and architecture. 



True country atmosphere as a feature is a characteristic that is apt 

 to be found lacking in what was, for a long time, considered as the 

 typical American country home. 



With the Centennial, at Philadelphia, in 1876, this type of land- 

 scape architecture Was in its best stage of development. Gardenesque 

 style of planting became almost the accepted one throughout America 

 where there was any attempt at a studied arrangement of planting, 

 walks, drives and garden areas. 



The first real departure from this type of landscape gardening 

 came with the work of Vaux in the use of the open lawn and natural 

 landscape effects with masses of native shrubs arranged to produce a 

 naturalistic effect of the whole scheme. Any formal grouping of 

 plants was now arranged as A garden. It is only within recent years 

 that plant material has become a part of landscape architecture in the 

 development of our country places, and not the controlling element- 

 Even today, the few architects and owners of country places in 

 America recognize in landscape architecture a field of art that has to 

 do with the basic principles of arrangement of land for convenience and 

 beauty with the use of plants as one of the materials of construction 

 and not the one thing that must be dealt with. The open vistas out 



