PREFACE 



IANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE is vastly more comprehensive 

 ^ than is usnally reahsed, as must appear from the scope of the 

 projected series which ventiu'es npon a more inclnsive and com2)lete 

 exposition of the snhject than has heretofore been attempted. In treat- 

 ing nnder the general head of Landscape Architectnre the subjects of 

 Landsca2)e Design, Planting Design, Park Design and Garden Design, 

 it is desired to impress the fact that the respective subjects, which are 

 being j^resented as four separate books, are component rather than 

 related parts of the art that Charles Eliot defined as " The art of 

 arranging land and landscape for human use, convenience and enjoy- 

 ment"; and such rules and princij^les as majr be outlined in the 

 develo2)ment of any one of the subjects will be found applicable and 

 equally serviceable in the understanding of the others. There might 

 even be included — and with propriety — two further volumes devoted 

 resjjectively to architectiu'al and civic design, were there not already 

 able and ample books on these particular subjects, — although the 

 former has not always been viewed and expounded in its broadest 

 aspect. 



It is with the unanimity of the subject material in mind that no 

 hesitation is felt in introducing Park Design of the series first, although 

 the volumes were not prepared nor originally intended to be presented 

 in that order. The manuscrijit of the book on Landscape Design has 

 unfortunately been interned with the author's trunk on the border 

 between Germany and France, and it is feared may have been con- 

 fiscated and destroyed by the authorities because of the many drawings 

 and photographs accompanying it. The loss of a manuscript, however 

 distressing it may seem to the author, nuist appear of little consequence 

 and trivial in liglit of tlie great calamities that are following the progress 



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