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"What then will the man of taste do, who lives for 

 the sake of living, who can enjoy himself, who seeks 

 real and simple pleasures, and who wishes to make 

 himself a walk within reach of his house? He will 

 make it so commodious and so agreeable that he can 

 please himself there at all hours of the day and more- 

 over so simple and natural that he seems to have 

 done nothing. He will combine water, verdure, shade, 

 and coolness, for nature too combines all these 

 things; he will give symmetry to nothing that is the 

 enemy to nature and variety; and all the alleys of 

 an ordinary garden have so strong a resemblance, 

 that you think you are always in the same one; he 

 will level the soil to walk on it comfortably : but the 

 two sides of the alley will not be always exactly 

 parallel ; its direction will not be always on a straight 

 line, it will have a certain vagueness, like the gait of a 

 leisurely man who sways as he walks. " z 



The entire scheme, however, as indicated above, is 

 coming more and more (as in Central Park, New York, 

 and in Germany and England and France) under the 

 control throughout of unified laws of design. This has 

 given and is giving increasing value for both park and 

 garden in the minds of many. 



People seeking to improve their places themselves 

 realize in many cases hardly anything of this harmoniz- 

 ing of schools, but they will find the best development 

 will be on these lines, and landscape architects and 



1 Jean Jacques Rousseau, Julie, or the Nouvelle Helo'ise. 



