LANDSCAPE GARDENING 



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1228 One of Langley s Desiens for eardens that lye irreeularly to the Grand House." 



foi the la-s ing o 

 panjin^ phn of sheu tot 

 (Fig Pill) and the 1 1 t 

 (Fig 1231) ■,how how far hi 

 from tho e of Langlej h \\ 

 shoit of the idealb of th i 

 tion has been left us of the I 



Passing through a smil! 

 swelling lawn thit iir i 

 a winding path wiil i 

 The path and w u i 

 upon the slope t 

 at one e cool glo i i 1 i 



left that \ou seem all on 



of 



ihp garden 



I \ I corollary 

 1 1 IK sent time, 

 lu 1 pies exists 

 that the old time 

 ridicts the canons 

 ifterent 



particularly amnn_ t Liuli : 

 foi its own sake \ et one ca 

 g«den art IS unloveh or thi 

 ot Kood taste The two bek 



cf e thetic feeling and the meie fact that both of them 



u e pUnt ubiects does not make them compaiable. 



t irdeu ait like painting or music or literature derelops 



al n, 11 lal r national lines The Latins and their 



I lilt li ^ p liked the formal and conventional 



line the e gardens express the personal 



tions they need no apolog\ notwith- 



r thej are condemned by many land- 



\ lift I lit t\pp of endeavor IS that which attempts to 

 mterpiet nature m the making of landscapes The ideal 

 landscape garden, like the ideal landscape painting, 

 expresses or emphasizes some single thought or feeling. 

 Its expression may be gay, bold, retired, quiet, florid; 

 but if it is natural, its expression will conform to the 

 place and the purpose, and the expressions are not mat- 

 ters of rule. It should be a picture, not a collection of 



interesting objects. Mere plaiitinu' ami -i-ading do not 

 make a landscape garden: in lari i)m y 'ilirn spoil it. 

 It is not enough to plant: tin- iilaiii-, iimsi l.e in the 

 right place. A yard or a hiwn wiili l.ushrs in- flower- 

 beds scattered over it may be interpsliiig as a mere 

 giirden, but it is not a landscape garden. The Italian 

 gardens were hardly landscape gardens. A real landscape 

 garden has open breadth, space, atmosphere. It usually 

 has an open center with mass-planted sides, and vistas 

 to the offscape. Incidentally, it may be ornamented; 

 yet many persons even confound ornamental garden- 

 ing with Landscape Gardening : it would be as proper 

 to confound house-painting with architecture. Figs. 

 1J2T anil 1232 show the contrasts of a mere garden and 

 a laiaKrape garden. Compare Plates XIV and XV. 



It will lie seen from the above that the term Land- 

 sr-a]>i- hardening precisely expresses the art of mak- 

 ing a garden or tame area which shall bi- a Iaiids.-a]ie 

 or picture. Yet, amongst the professiini, tlir tirni land- 

 scape architecture is preferred. This ti riii l...ir..\vs the 

 dignity of architecture, and is useful in a i.n.fis>ional 

 way. The writer much prefers the tiriu Laudscape 

 Gardening ; but it is apparent that the term landscape 

 architecture is growing in favor with the profession, and 

 there is little use in debating over a mere term. Properly 

 speaking, the terms Landscape Gardening mid landscape 

 architecture are not synonyiiiiiiis. alllj..ii^li in practice 

 they are so used. It is n"i . \ ■ ly plar, w lurh is adapted 



the 



■of 



are often more to br ilr^ii 

 may conform to the prinr 

 art of formal gardens, i,. 

 often have formal gardi n- 

 point of the natural or I: 

 confusion has arisen, 'i'hi. 

 some reaction against the i 

 landscape garden. In prs 

 separate the two, so that c 

 be, both landscape garden 

 So it comes that the ti iin I; 

 for the whole art of laviiii^ 

 therefore broader than ii - r 

 word "architect" sln.ul, I l.r 

 contriver or pin ,nn ,. latlin 

 hiiilder. It is thr natmv n 

 than the formal. -^-in.- ^jaid 

 mind in the advice wliiuli i- 



!<arde 

 The 



111- term is 

 i-i;est: the 

 a I sense of 



