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of living creatures; of men and children, of birds and 

 beasts, of hills and streams, and trees and flowers ; with 

 the changes of night and day, evening and morning, 

 summer and winter ; and all their unwearied actions 

 and energies, as benign in the spirit that animates them, 

 as beautiful and grand in the form and clothing which 

 is given to them for the delight of our senses." 1 



All parks and even the smallest ornamental ground 

 should indicate at once the presence of a controlling 

 scheme of design. It is not a question of size; there 

 should be everywhere, no matter what the size, entire 

 artistic unity. 



A. J. Downing, in his work on landscape gardening, 

 says: 



"Unity or the production of the whole is a leading 

 principle of the highest importance in every art of 

 taste or design, without which no satisfactory result 

 can be realized. This arises from the fact that the 

 mind can only attend with pleasure and satisfaction 

 to one object or one composite sensation at the same 

 time. If two distinct objects or classes of objects 

 present themselves at once to us, we can only attend 

 satisfactorily to one, by withdrawing our atten- 

 tion for the time from the other. Hence, the neces- 

 sity of a reference to this leading principle of unity." 

 Thomas Whately, in Observations on Modern Garden- 

 ing, writes: 



1 William Wordsworth, letter to Sir G. Beaumont, 1805. 



