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In considering this type of maintenance which aims 

 at perfection, but which is neither superfine or affectedly 

 natural, we should always remember that on estates and 

 parks pastoral and picturesque are the terms that best 

 express what we should seek to create and by mainte- 

 nance to retain. There should always be a revealing 

 day by day of a new scene, ever picturesque, always 

 renewing itself by the help of a ceaseless and intelligent 

 maintenance which retains all the essential elements 

 that make landscape gardening grateful and sufficing. 



The scene in Central Park in the Ramble well illus- 

 trates this idea of the picturesque. The trees are large 

 and shadowy, with a quaint old weeping beech in their 

 midst and a peaceful lawn extending away from them. 

 The grass and the trees show evidence of good mainte- 

 nance and the rocks and masses of the foliage have all 

 the qualities of the picturesque. 



Isaac Taylor in The Spirit of Hebrew Poetry has 

 beautifully and truly expressed the essential qualities 

 of the picturesque, and to create such qualities and to 

 retain them in the landscape by sympathetic and skil- 

 ful maintenance does certainly compass the highest 

 reach of the art of landscape gardening. He says : 



"The poetry of all nations has conserved more or 

 less of these elements of the primeval repose; and 

 in fact we find them conserved also, and represented 

 in that modem feeling — the love of and the taste for 

 the picturesque. Modem undoubtedly is this taste, 

 which has not developed itself otherwise than in 



