Chap. I.] 



THE BOIS DE BOULOGNE. 



the formalism which convenience and economy require the archi- 

 tect to bear in mind, no matter how widely he diverges from the 

 commonplace in general design. In garden or in park there is 

 practically no limit to variety; in buildings there are many. 

 Vegetation varies every day in the year, but buildings bear the 

 stamp of unchangeableness. In the tree and plant world we deal 

 with things by no means remotely allied to ourselves : their lives. 



LAKE AND ISLAND VIEW, 

 An absurd kiosk-like structure on this point of tlie island has been omitted in t/ie s/ietch. 



from the unfolding bud to the tottering trunk, are as the lives of 

 men. There is infinite change in the individual, and boundless 

 variety in species and their forms. Therefore the opportunity for 

 variety is beyond comparison greater in gardening than in the 

 building art, or indeed in any other art whatever. 



As yet we are far from perfection as builders, and the garden 

 still holds the relation to the building art which is described by 



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