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borders of the lawn large shade trees frame the pic- 

 ture. Approaching from the other and less interesting 

 side you are led to the house by well-balanced winding 

 drives which are screened by trees and shrubs. Back 

 of the trees and shrubs are large vegetable and flower 

 gardens, very properly shut out from view. It is a 

 good example of what an estate of a cultivated country 

 gentleman should be, and is a place which reflects a 

 character which any man, though ever so rich, should 

 wish to have presented to the world as his own. 



Germany, the home of landscaping in its fully de- 

 veloped form, presents the estate of Prince Piickler 

 and the Park of Babelsberg near Potsdam, as well as 

 other parks in the empire, as good examples of the art 

 and its proper practice. The illustration of the park 

 at Muskau affords a view of a size and extent that is a 

 fine example of the best landscape gardening, and the 

 plans of the front lawn of the castle as it originally 

 appeared before Prince Puckler's alterations are, as 

 it now appears, illuminating as to the possibilities of 

 skilful rearrangement. 



But while we dwell with admiration on the great land- 

 scape architecture of the world at Windsor Park, Eng- 

 land, and Central Park, New York, we should not forget 

 the small places, the nooks and corners where the houses 

 stand on a quarter of an acre, one acre, or five or ten 

 acres. There are myriads of such places which need 

 study of an intelligent sort, where the grounds have 

 laid themselves out in accidental fashion, and where 

 any ideas of design are difficult to discover. It should 



