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never saw. To draw a beautiful regular draught is 

 not to the purpose, for although it makes a hand- 

 some figure on the paper, yet it has quite a different 

 effect when executed on the ground." 1 



There should be also full realization of the fact that 

 the work of laying out a park or estate, large or small, 

 should always be considered more or less experimental. 

 Plans of ornamental grounds have much less value 

 than plans of architectural structures because changes 

 are more likely to be necessary with live trees and 

 shrubs than with wood and iron and stone. No land- 

 scape work is likely to be well done unless it has been 

 changed from time to time. The study of the place 

 should be continuous and kept up long after the initial 

 work is finished. Sometimes a radical mistake is dis- 

 covered when the landscape gardening is well advanced, 

 but none the less should the mistake be remedied at 

 the time, because the remedy is often difficult and 

 expensive to apply and therefore likely to be left 

 unapplied in after years. 



"The building of a place should be begun and 

 carried out with consistency throughout ; it is there- 

 fore necessary to have it thoroughly thought out 

 from the first, and guided along all the way through 

 by one controlling mind, a mind that should make 

 use of the thoughts of many others, welding them 

 into an organic whole so that the stamp of indi- 

 1 Battey Langley. 



