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the eye and the taste, which are the final judges, must 

 be much the same. 



Farm, Landscape. 



IN" further reference to the possible connection of 

 landscape art with lands submitted every year to 

 agricultural and economic uses, I propose to examine 

 the matter in detail. If all farm-lands showed only 

 the method of Alderman Mechi's, and his system 

 of pumping dirty water by steam into the middle of 

 any field to be distributed thence by hose and 

 sprinklers should prevail, we should have, of course, 

 only flat surfaces and rectangular fields to deal with. 

 But it is safe to say that it will not prevail upon most 

 of our American farms for many years to come ; yet 

 it is none the less true that farm-lands are chiefly 

 valued for the crops they will carry, and for the 

 annual return they will make. Are lands under such 

 rule of management susceptible of an aesthetic gov- 

 ernance as well ? Will treatment with a view to 

 profit, discard of necessity all consideration of taste- 

 ful arrangement? I think not, and for reasons 

 among which I may adduce the following : Judicious 

 location of a farm-steading, with a view to profit 

 simply, will be always near the centre of the Ian da 

 farmed : this is agreeable, moreover, to every land- 



