PREFACE 



T ANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE is vastly more comprehensive 

 JL-Jthan is usually realised, as must appear from the scope of the 

 projected series which ventures upon a more inclusive and complete 

 exposition of the sub j ect than has heretofore been attempted. In treat- 

 ing under the general head of Landscape Architecture the subjects of 

 Landscape Design, Planting Design, Park Design and Garden Design, 

 it is desired to impress the fact that the respective subjects, which are 

 being presented as four separate books, are component rather than 

 related parts of the art that Charles Eliot defined as " The art of 

 arranging land and landscape for human use, convenience and enjoy- 

 ment " ; and such rules and principles as may be outlined in the 

 development of any one of the subjects will be found applicable and 

 equally serviceable in the understanding of the others. There might 

 even be included and with propriety two further volumes devoted 

 respectively to architectural and civic design, were there not already 

 able and ample books on these particular subjects, although the 

 former has not always been viewed and expounded in its broadest 

 aspect. 



It is with the unanimity of the subject material in mind that no 

 hesitation is felt in introducing Park Design of the series first, although 

 the volumes were not prepared nor originally intended to be presented 

 in that order. The manuscript of the book on Landscape Design has 

 unfortunately been interned with the author's trunk on the border 

 between Germany and France, and it is feared may have been con- 

 fiscated and destroyed by the authorities because of the many drawings 

 and photographs accompanying it. The loss of a manuscript, however 

 distressing it may seem to the author, must appear of little consequence 

 and trivial in light of the great calamities that are following the progress 



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