LAYING OUT OF GROUNDS 



such disposition of roadways, plantations, 

 walks, and buildings as shall most effectively 

 develop all the natural beauties of the land 

 under treatment, without conflicting (or 

 rather in harmony) with the uses to which 

 such lands may be devoted. Thus, in a pri- 

 vate estate, home interests and conveniences 

 must be kept steadily in view, and these must 

 never be sacrificed for the production of a 

 picturesque effect, however striking in itself. 

 Again, in a public park the same law obtains, 

 and any good design for such must show 

 great amplitude of roadway, and broad, open 

 spaces for the disport of the multitude. Upon 

 farm-lands, which I hold to be not without the 

 domain of landscape treatment, there must be 

 due regard to the offices of rural economy, 

 and the decorative features may be safely 

 brought out in the shape of gateways, belts of 

 protecting shrubbery, or scattered coppices 

 upon the pasture-lands. Upon ground entirely 

 level, the range of possible treatment is, of 

 course, very much limited; but the true artist 

 in landscape effects can do something even 

 with this; no architect worthy of the name 

 despairs if he is confined to four walls of even 

 height; in his own art, if he loves it, he finds 

 decorative resources. 



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