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tion to new conditions of life, there has come a growing 

 and hopeful tendency towards individual development, 

 to the bestowal of a definite personality to work of 

 this character. By the small owner as well as the 

 prosperous man of affairs, or of elegant leisure, there 

 is an increasing effort to carry out his own ideas on his 

 own place. The emphasis of personality has come in 

 spite of all to be a deep note of the landscape gardening 

 of the present day. Whatever we have of it is a hope- 

 ful sign, although it also has its drawba cks. 



So wide has been the interest in horticulture, so great 

 has been the development of trees and shrubs and flow- 

 ers, that the value of the basic ideas that should always 

 be • kept in view in the practice of the art has been 

 partially left in abeyance or lost sight of. Some sacri- 

 fice doubtless is needed. Those who are interested in 

 landscape must forgo somewhat of their regard for 

 extraordinary floral and arboreal effects, and return to 

 the study of the ideas that lie at the foundation of the 

 art. "No one can advance without surrender, no one 

 can gain without losses, no one can reach great goals 

 without giving up many things in themselves desirable." 

 An extraordinary horticultural effect may be in itself 

 desirable, yet it may be positively unsuited to the 

 landscape scheme adopted. There is a rivalry of the 

 horticultural and the strictly landscape gardening 

 effects which no one making an estate can escape, for 

 in order to achieve success in one typical line another 

 possible line may have to be sacrificed. Moreover, 

 the landscape architect has to employ his weapons on 



