ON LANDSCAPE GARDENERS 



related to Principle 3 discussed above. 

 Their striking individuality appears to be 

 largely the result of their nodal treatment, 

 more fully discussed belovir. As a third 

 characteristic, they were always laid on 

 natural lines. This means that there are 

 no straight lines and no mathematical 

 curves, either in horizontal projection or 

 in profile. In this matter of road design 

 Olmsted has been widely followed, usually 

 without marked success. 



8. Olmsted appears to have been the 

 first conspicuously to adopt the principle 

 of rhythm in natural landscape composition, 

 though any artist composing freely, and 

 with a proper feeling for his work will 

 inevitably follow this method more or less. 

 This method cannot be formulated in a 

 sentence, but it may be explained most 

 simply in its application to roads. We may 

 suppose that every road (especially such 

 long "circuit drives" as Olmsted delighted 

 to make) may be composed of a certain 

 number of nodes, connected by corre- 

 sponding internodes. The main features of 

 the landscape composition come at the 

 nodes. Here will be the best views. Here 

 will be the most attractive plantings. Here 



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