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ROM unrelated detail upon a. A 

 place, we are gradually led 

 towards broader effects, and 

 a desire for more simple rela- 

 tions of parts to the whole, while a wish 

 to bring subordination to some central 

 idea that shall give purpose to the pic- 

 ture is gradually born in our minds. Thus 

 our work becomes an education in the 

 higher principles which must underlie all 

 beauty. 



When we first purchased this old farm A quiet vii- 

 no dream of landscape gardening crossed 

 our minds. It was not to found a coun- 

 try-seat that we bought it, but simply to 

 get a place to live in, a quiet village home, 

 as indeed it is, where a lovely view would 

 gladden our eyes, where we should have 

 elbow-room, with enough land to cultivate 

 to provide us with an interest, and where 

 we could raise hay for our horses, and, 

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