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map, and comparing photographs, there will gradually 

 dawn on the mind some idea of what the whole design 

 when completed should look like, how the various parts 

 should develop individually and grow into a unified 

 whole. This is the vital part of the work, the part 

 that involves concentrated thought more than any 

 other. It may reveal itself quickly or take a longer 

 time and come only after continued study of the place 

 itself as well as various models, for such a picture 

 should be made to realize a decided and carefully 

 thought-out clear conception such as would satisfy 

 any one as a real artistic creation, and not a vague 

 phantasm or a hodge-podge. 



Yet it should be remembered that, though the art 

 faculty exists in some degree in all men, in its creative 

 degree it is the privilege of comparatively few. The 

 process of creation has been thus described : " Reflection 

 and voluntary adaptation intervenes in a moment of 

 inspiration, and inspiration supervenes on afterthought 

 and remembrance. ' And as I mused the fire kindled/ " 



The order in which a scheme of laying out should 

 be studied is : First : The necessary limitations, roads, 

 and spaces intended for buildings of different sorts. 

 Second: Views to be revealed or kept open by cutting 

 out existing woods or arranging planting so as to lead 

 the eye to pleasant prospects. Third: The shutting 

 out of disagreeable objects by planting trees and shrubs 

 and leading roads and paths as far as possible away from 

 them, and then a definite picture controlled by these 

 limitations. 



