OUT-OF-TOWN PLACES 



CONCLUSION 



Having thus presented— as it were, by turn of 

 kaleidoscope and probably by wearisome rep- 

 etition — all the shades and outlines of the 

 fifty-acre purchase which my friend Urban 

 has had in mind, I cannot close without a 

 summing up. 



All that I have laid down in way of design, 

 whether for walks, plantations, or country- 

 house, has been intended for suggestion rather 

 than literal fulfilment. Every locality must 

 have its own interpretation at the hands of the 

 artist. Method must vary — not only as the 

 hills and the slopes vary, but as the wants and 

 the tastes of the occupant vary. 



There are farms I know, unctuous with an 

 accumulated fertility, and with right lines run- 

 ning athwart their slopes, which might be con- 

 verted into charming park-lands, with every 

 grass-field rounded into a lawn; but, to my 

 eye, they would gain nothing, if in this con- 

 version the economic interests of the holder 

 were ignored. Land does its best service 

 where it best feeds our human wants : not nec- 



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