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that can only come from actual love of the work and 

 a certain knowledge possessed by himself. Landscape 

 gardening means, therefore, much more than hiring a 

 gardener to grade and plant the lawn, or a consulta- 

 tion with the tree agent about trees and shrubs to be 

 bought, and it means much more than the preparation 

 of plans of location of buildings, roads, and plantations 

 by some celebrated expert; it should really mean an 

 unceasing struggle for years to attain results the 

 accomplishment of which, with the help of men, of 

 nature in field and forest, and of books, will prove an 

 unceasing delight. Prince Puckler worked at it for 

 half a century, on his estates at Moskau and elsewhere, 

 and never ceased to enjoy it and to acquire fresh ideas. 

 Read what he says about the extent and size of a park 

 and it will be evident at once that he found on artistic 

 lines inspiration for the most elevated conceptions 

 wrought out in a duly ordered scheme. 

 Prince Puckler says: 



"In order that the landscape gardener should 

 achieve a great effect, it is not necessary that a park 

 should be large. An extended estate is often so 

 bungled, so belittled by incompetent treatment, that, 

 lacking in unity, it appears quite small. I may here 

 remark, by the way, that I think Michael Angelo 

 totally wrong when he said about the Pantheon, 'Ye 

 marvel at it on the earth, I will set it in the heavens.' 

 He meant thereby to achieve a more imposing effect, 

 and as he said, so he did. He gave the dome of 



