FRENCH GARDENING AND ITS MASTER 



By JOHN GALEN HOWARD 



FELLOW OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF A RCH IIECIS 



SUCH a subject as that upon which I have been asked 

 to say a few words is of far too \ast a scope to be 

 adequately treated within the Hmits of a short paper. 

 I have therefore thought it wise to single out one great epoch 



principles which governed it and made its greatness. 



The entire history of French gardening is dominated in a 

 degree very exceptional in any art or people by a single per- 

 sonality — that, namely, of Le Notre. I do not mean to say, 



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