LESSON 59 
Tue LANpscaPE LINKS 
HIS lesson is intended to provide a method for 
the intensive study of some favorable tract of 
native landscape. This landscape is to be stud- 
, led with the special purpose of learning its pic- 
torial possibilities, whether developed or latent 
General Plan 
The general plan of this exercise is to have the instructor lay 
off a series of fixed views along a definite course. Hence the term 
“the landscape links,’’ these stations being placed in a circuitous 
series like the holes in a golf links. Except for this distinctive name 
the exercise might better be compared to the afternoon walk, in 
which one tramps leisurely from point to point, stopping to contem- 
plate at ease each good view. 
Directions 
The instructor should choose any tract of interesting land. 
The more varied its topography and the more interesting its scenery 
the better. But no excuses are to be made. It is not necessary, 
nor even desirable, to include the Rocky Mountains, Niagara Falls 
and the Big Trees in any landscape links. Specially favorable op- 
portunities will be found along small streams, but any open pasture 
will do. Even cultivated farm land presents interesting scenery, 
or a really delightful series of views could be laid off along crowded 
city streets. The instructor in laying out his landscape links should 
use his imagination to full capacity, and if this organ serves him well 
there will be no need to complain of the landscapes offered by nature. 
After the instructor has familiarized himself thoroughly with 
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