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that there should be some grand or leading features 

 to which the others should be merely subordinate. 

 Thus, in grouping trees, there should be some large 

 and striking masses to which the others appear to 

 belong, however distant, instead of scattered groups, 

 all of the same size. Even in arranging walks, a 

 whole will more readily be recognized, if there are 

 one or two, of large size, with which the others appear 

 connected as branches, than if all are equal in breadth, 

 and present the same appearance to the eye in 

 passing." 



The difficulty with many landscape designs, whether 

 the result of caprice, or of too strict adherence to the 

 canons of a school, is that the plan selected is not 

 really intelligent. 



In the words of an acute and able writer, Harald 

 Hoffding: 



"Gradually man learns to substitute methods for 

 systems and to ask how and how much in place of 

 why. Instead of constructing the world according 

 to the caprice of his imagination, he learns to discern 

 the interconnection which actually obtains from it, 

 and when in this way he gradually arrives at finding 

 one great unity running through all things his ima- 

 gination will regain in a more secure form all that 

 it has lost when its daring pictures were crowded 

 out by critical investigations." 



It becomes a question, once the general plan is made, 



