THE GENERAL PLAN OR THEORY OF THE PLACE 138 
tion of the fundamental elements of the beauty of landscape. 
Its only merit is the fact that trees and shrubs have been 
planted; and this, to most minds, comprises the essence and 
sum of the ornamentation of grounds. Every tree and bush 
is an individual alone, 
unattended, disconnected cA _ a 
from its environments, & = & & 
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and, therefore, meaning- > iB oH QB do 
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less. Such a yardis only ,2% & 
a nursery. - & &> ud 
The other plan (Fig. 6) ve 3 
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is a picture. The eye 
catches its meaning at 5. The common or nursery way of 
once. The central idea is Beene 
the residence, with a free and open greensward in front of it. 
The same trees and bushes that were scattered haphazard over 
Fig. 5 are massed into a framework to give effectiveness to the 
picture of home and comfort. This style of planting makes a 
landscape, even though the area be no larger than a parlor. 
The other style is only a collection of curious plants. The one 
Gis : has an instant and 
pin paneer EL & abiding pictorial ef- 
aaa) tas fA" fect, which is restful 
AN « and satisfying: the 
as observer exclaims, 
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eS “What a beautiful 
oe \ home this is!” The 
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eR other piques one’s 
SS curiosity, obscures 
6. The proper or pictorial type of alanine, the residence, di- 
vides and distracts the attention: the observer exclaims, ‘What 
excellent lilac bushes are these!” 
An inquiry into the causes of the unlike impressions that one 
receives from a given landscape and from a painting of it 
