OUT-OF-TOWN PLACES 



to imply that the man who could fill a peas- 

 ant's rood of ground with charms of shrub or 

 flower, would, by virtue of so humble attain- 

 ment, be competent to produce the larger ef- 

 fects of landscape gardening. This would, of 

 course, involve a wider knowledge and a dif- 

 ferent order of experience; but the eye and 

 the taste, which are the final judges, must be 

 much the same. 



FARM LANDSCAPE 



In furthef reference to the possible connection 

 of landscape art with lands submitted every 

 year to agricultural and economic uses, I pro- 

 pose to examine the matter in detail. If all 

 farm-lands showed only the method of Alder- 

 man Mechi's, and his system of pumping dirty 

 water by steam into the middle of any field — 

 to be distributed thence by hose and sprink- 

 lers — should prevail, we should have, of 

 course, only flat surfaces and rectangular 

 fields to deal with. But it is safe to say that 

 it will not prevail upon most of our American 

 farms for many years to come; yet it is none 

 the less true that farm-lands are chiefly val- 

 ued for the crops they will carry, and for the 



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