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LANDSCAPE GARDEN SERIES 



Fig. 10— Many of the small architectural features used in American gardens are 

 replicas or adaptions of famous European examples 



work along these lines as a profession. He adopted the title of "Land- 

 scape Gardener" and was conceded even by Price to be at the head 

 of his profession. 



He believed in an organized plan, using plant materials to help 

 create the desired effect; and he believed in using the materials of the 

 problem in the best possible way to enhance the plan. He was 

 the creator of what we now call the English lawn, a broad stretch of 

 turf with plants in masses about the building and the corners, but not as 

 straggly specimens dotted over the lawn, as had been the case in the 

 time of Kent. 



He believed the fundamental of design in landscape gardening to 

 be as follows: The entrance drive, which might be elaborate or sim- 

 ple, as depended on the taste of the owner; the service portion which 

 should be concealed from the rest of the house, and the pleasure gar- 

 dens which he considered as an outdoor room to the house. Consid- 

 ering an estate as a composition, he divided the distance as follows: 

 immediate foreground which to him included part of the house, the 

 middle distance with its tree groups to aid the view, and the view 



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