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pant of a country estate can safely disturb. But one 

 landholder has a penchant for agriculture, and wishes 

 to make all the available acres contribute to his taste 

 for cattle or crops ; another has a horticultural mania, 

 and wishes the outlay to take such a shape as shall 

 most contribute to his special pursuit ; still another 

 foresees a demand for his acres as villa sites, and 

 desires such arrangement as shall best contribute to 

 their conversion into some half-dozen or more of 

 attractive homesteads ; and yet another wishes such 

 improvement as shall best develop the natural features 

 of the place, and insure the most economic treatment 

 of the same, without any view to future sale, or to 

 whims, whether horticultural or agricultural. 



Now it is strictly within the province of land- 

 scape art to meet either or all of these views without 

 violation of its elemental principles. I have already 

 intimated how far the offices of husbandman and his 

 methods of culture may be subordinated to good 

 landscape effect: of horticulture this is even more 

 true. In laying out with a view to ultimate division 

 of country property for villa sites, there are certain 

 difficulties in the way. In a general sense, it is true 

 that the more you make beautiful a country property, 

 the more you make it inviting for country residences. 

 But landscape design with a view to a single owner- 

 ship and a single home establishment must needs be 



