INTRODUCTION 
there are inoffensive smokestacks, noble and beautiful bridges 
and distinctly good-looking siloes. And the beautiful smokestacks, 
bridges and siloes are just as useful as the ugliest ones ever built. 
It is often thought that a large part of landscape gardening is 
directed to covering up and disguising unsightly but necessary ob- 
jects. Unfortunately work of this sort has to be done sometimes: 
— we seldom find perfectly ideal conditions in this present world; 
but our first effort should always be to render every useful object 
beautiful instead of merely trying to hide it. Particularly repre- 
hensible is the practice of covering up dirty and unsanitary nuisances 
by such means as planting screens of “‘ornamental”’ trees and shrubs. 
As though a garbage dump could be ornamented! 
Readings 
The pupil will easily find innumerable books on art and enough 
on landscape gardening, some good, many indifferent, others worth- 
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