THE LANDSCAPE BEAUTIFUL 



namely, because it leads to something beau- 

 tiful. To be more specific, we might say 

 that it is a fine art because it produces 

 organized beauty. Simple objects of beauty, 

 like a rose or a blue tile, are born or made 

 in various ways — not necessarily in the 

 ways of art; — but their combinations into 

 organic schemes wherein each member 

 serves a particular office, and wherein edl 

 the members of any one scheme constitute 

 a whole organism, every part duly and 

 organically related to every other part — 

 that is art. And when these various ele- 

 ments happen to be trees, flowers, lawns, 

 and pergolas, the art which organizes them 

 is landscape gardening. 



Now, this art is fairly entitled to take 

 high place in the general company of fine 

 arts for several reasons; first of all, for the 

 very great difficulties which have to be 

 overcome. The genius of art is in the 

 overcoming of difficulties. 



The first great difficulty that the land- 

 scape gardener meets lies in the fact that 

 his composition is seen from no fixed point 

 of view. This seems so great an obstacle 

 that Professor Santayana thought it could 

 never be overcome, and this led him to 



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