PLAN AND PURPOSE OF THIS BOOK 
of course include any exercises of his own invention. It may be 
hoped that the student will not altogether neglect the exercises 
which are not assigned and required. Any intelligent student who 
uses this text-book for three or four months is pretty apt to know a 
good deal about its entire contents. If the course is as successful 
as it ought to be and the interest of the student is thoroughly awak- 
ened, he will naturally exhaust the text-book and reach out for 
other sources of information, which indeed exist in great abundance. 
Finally the author wishes the teacher and student the utmost 
pleasure in the study of the fascinating subject of landscape garden- 
ing. 
