TEXTBOOK OF LANDSCAPE GARDENING 
Study 
After the student has given careful thought to the foregoing 
argument and to the example.of the brook here illustrated he should 
proceed to make a much more thorough study of some landscape 
motive or motives in his own neighborhood. In this study a good 
camera will be of the utmost service. Let the student take an 
assigned area (never more than a square mile; usually much less) 
of woodland, pasture, lake shore, cultivated farm land, canyon, 
sand dune, or any other type of landscape within easiest reach. 
Let him select the leading motive to be found on this area. Then, 
confining himself as closely as possible to the chosen motive, let him 
make a series of the very best photographs of which he or his camera 
are capable, his object being to find the utmost beauty and to show 
as many phases of that beauty as his invention can display. It 
will complicate his problem somewhat, but it will make the final 
result better, if he will use one or two human figures in his photo- 
graphs for the reasons indicated above. 
It will be desirable to have several members of the same class 
study the same area quite independently of one another. If there 
are more than five members in the section, however, it is recom- 
mended that they be assigned to other areas. 
After the photographs are all made and finished they should 
be grouped and brought into one general exhibit. At that time the 
entire ground should be covered with questions like those already 
suggested: Do these pictures justly present a landscape motive? 
Do they show a landscape type? In how far have they failed to 
present the subject at its best? What remains to be told? Would 
other weather conditions or other seasons of the year add materially 
to the scenic resources of the area studied? Are the natural resour- 
ces of this area such as to warrant the landscape gardener in making 
a park here? What would the landscape gardener do to enhance 
the natural beauties as discovered in the present study? 
If members of the class can not be equipped with cameras for 
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