CHAPTER I 



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HISTORY 



THE enjoyment of designing, building, and caring for gardens, 

 together with the pleasure of studying natural landscape has been 

 since the earliest times a favorite subject for authors and students, 

 so that we have very good data for the study of the growth of land- 

 scape gardening from the earliest times up to the present date. 

 Although many of the earlier gardens are no longer existing, and 

 many styles of landscape gardening have lasted only for comparatively 

 short time, each of these has left behind it something worth being 

 copied, so that many of the gardens we see at the present time com- 

 bine features that were used in the earliest gardens. While the gar- 

 dens of the different countries differed a great deal both in their 

 arrangement and the plant material used and in the use of the gardens 

 themselves, we find in many cases the same features, such as water. 



Fig. 2 — Gateway. An American Estate 



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