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architects do, in many cases, fully realize it, for already 

 the garden and the estate or park are frequently thus 

 made to correlate themselves. There has been conflict, 

 and there is still some between the "architectural" and 

 " natural " schools, but "discord is the proof of vitality " 

 for it is here as elsewhere, again and again, the conflict 

 of elements which in spite of their apparently absolute 

 antagonism are really each contained in the design of a 

 harmonious landscape scheme, and which will therefore 

 eventually be reconciled by further development. The 

 making of a home suggests naturally at first the build- 

 ing of a house and so the architect and his school or 

 party take control, but "A party first truly shows itself 

 to have won the victory when it breaks up into two 

 parties: for so it proves that it contains in itself the 

 principle with which it first had to conflict, and thus it 

 had to get beyond the one-sidedness which was inci- 

 dental to its earliest expression." 



Here are several examples of how the struggle be- 

 tween the architectural and the natural progresses and 

 takes shape. Smollett gives the following account of 

 a classical architectural garden Villa Pinciana at Rome ; 

 although the writer is doubtless a prejudiced observer, 

 he was a keen and, on the whole, veracious one and his 

 travels in 1765 are of great interest and value. 



"He who loves the beauties of simple nature and 

 the charm of neatness, will look for them in vain 

 amidst the groves of Italy. In the garden of Villa 

 Pinciana, there is a plantation of four hundred pines, 



