Note 



THIS volume^ which furnishes a natural se- 

 quence to The Art of Landscape Gardening, 

 by Humphrey Repton, is the second of a series of 

 authoritative books to be published by Messrs. 

 Houghton Mifflin Company. The series was un- 

 dertaken at the suggestion and with the coop- 

 eration of the American Society of Landscape 

 Architects, and the writer has been asked to serve 

 as general editor. 



Hermann Lud wig Heinrichvon Puckler-Mus- 

 kau was the son of a Count, a Privy Councillor 

 of the King of Saxony. He married a lady of 

 rank, the daughter of the Prince Hardenburg, 

 State Chancellor, and one of the great statesmen 

 of the age. Born in 1785 in a palace of the old 

 town of Muskau in Silesia, about a hundred 

 miles from Berlin, he died, full of honors, in 

 1 871 . He occupied during his long career many 

 positions of importance in civil and military affairs, 

 and traveled widely over the world everywhere, 

 including a visit to the United States and years 

 of residence in England, a country he loved. 



His contribution to the art of landscape archi- 

 tecture is large and permanent. It expresses itselF^ 

 in his interesting published letters from England, 

 entitled T^he Letters of a German Prince, in his 

 discussion of the underlying principles of land- 



