14: LA^^)SCAPE GABDENIXG 



Tarions schools of paintxDg have had a pro- 

 found influence upon landscape design, j>articu- 

 larly in England- The influence seems to have 

 been exerted chieflr in the decorative comjKJsition 

 of mass and spac-e relations, as the silhouetting of 

 planting masses against the sky and the types of 

 planting. A book by Sir Uvedale Price npon the 

 "Picturesque and the Beantiful,"* which ap- 

 peared at the end of the ei^teenth century, advo- 

 cated the imitation of the work of Claude Lor- 

 rain by landscape-gardeners in their planting, 

 even to the introduction of stumps and dead trees 

 as a i)art of the scheme to lend a picturesque 

 charm: he nevertheless admitted that formal gar- 

 dening wiis best near the house. Here the roman- 

 tic point of view seems to have been the precursor 

 of the rustic monstrosities in cement and iron 

 which nnf ortonately have a large sale even at the 

 present day. In America the fad reached its 

 greatest height sJ)out lS6o. Cast-iron dogs, deer, 

 and other sylvan creations must be laid at the door 

 of painting rather than of sculpture, for the man- 

 ufacturers of these objtts d'art probably got their 



