TEXTBOOK OF LANDSCAPE GARDENING 
Motive 
Every worth-while work of art has a subject, theme or motive. 
In landscape gardening the term motive is perhaps most eligible, 
though all three words mean the same thing. Everyone is familiar 
with the theme or subject in literature, and those who have studied 
Fic. 6. Tae Mountains as A LanpscaPe Motive. Photograph by Fred C. Sears 
music should understand what is meant by a musical theme. It is 
also reasonably clear that any painting must have some sort of sub- 
ject. 
It is somewhat difficult however to state exactly what is a land- 
scape gardening motive. Let us illustrate by saying that a park 
at Niagara Falls could hardly do anything else than exhibit the 
Falls. That would necessarily be the theme or motive. So amore 
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