LANDSCAPE TYPES—THE BROOK 
as for example in a certain park or along a certain scenic drive. 
Motive is synonymous with theme or subject; and as any essay, 
sermon, oration or written treatise must have one definite and un- 
mistakable theme, so must any good work of landscape gardening 
have one outstanding and instantly recognizable motive. 
In the case used for illustration in this lesson the brook might 
be taken as the motive or theme for the landscape treatment of a 
park. But brooks in general constitute a landscape type. 
EA bis Ee 
Fig. 146. Wauere THE Brook Sines To THE STONES 
Argument 
Landscape gardening is to be mastered only through the study 
of the natural landscape, and the natural landscape is to be under- 
stood only through long, patient, sympathetic, intimate study of 
details — of motives and types. The present lesson will indicate 
how the student may proceed to make a detailed study of a section 
of a neighboring brook. But the same method should be widely 
applied to the study of other types of landscape. 
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