GENERAL PRINCIPLES 
commonplace park running along a mile of some minor stream would 
nevertheless find the stream beautiful, would strive primarily to 
exhibit the beauties of the stream — would in short adopt the stream 
as its motive. That park would be the story of Paint Creek or 
Duck River just as truly as ““Hamlet” is the story of Hamlet. 
It is impossible here to expound the principles upon which 
landscape motives are chosen and worked out. It may be barely 
suggested that, as a rule, in each landscape tract of land developed 
the selected motive is presented in a series of paragraphs or epi- 
sodes. In each paragraph some different treatment is given to the 
motive. For illustration let us imagine four paragraphs of the 
Paint Creek motive suggested above. In the first picture we might 
see the rapids with the water singing over the stones; at the second 
paragraph we might see flat quiet water with stately beech trees 
reflected from the opposite shore; at the third paragraph we might 
cross the stream over a bridge getting a long view down the channel 
toward a distant hill; at the fourth paragraph, at the bend of the 
creek, where the old Indian camp used to be, the park maker might 
introduce two or three Indian tepees, always of great pictorial value, 
and these would serve to recall the history and legends of Paint 
Creek. 
Analogy 
The youthful pupil in high school or college will find the analogy 
between rhetoric and landscape gardening particularly suggestive 
at this point. He has been taught to write essays, compositions or 
“themes.”’ He has been taught the demands of unity — has learned 
to stick strictly to one subject. At the same time he has been 
taught to give the subject varied treatment, sometimes serious, 
sometimes witty, sometimes statistical, sometimes poetic. Finally 
he has been taught to treat his theme paragraphically. Each 
paragraph must have a quality of its own but it must first of all 
bear directly upon the theme in hand. Landscape gardening and 
literature come very close together in all these points. 
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