THE LANDSCAPE BEAUTIFUL 



the road will make its principal turn; and 

 at the nodes will come the changes of 

 grade. For instance, there would be a node 

 where the drive crosses a small streaim. 

 The grade changes from a decline to an 

 incline. There is a promising curve. There 

 is a specially fine view of the stream. 

 There is a bridge to be admired. The 

 plantings along the brookside are altogether 

 different from those on the meadow just 

 passed. Everything marks this for a node. 

 After enjoying this picture to our time's 

 content, we take the ascent toward the 

 upland beyond, and after traversing a com- 

 paratively featureless intemode we come 

 out on the high land above, where gradient 

 and curvature change once more, and 

 where the far outlook blesses us with 

 emotions quite different from those borne 

 to us on the shady bridge over the brook. 



The same method of composition 

 applies, almost necessarily, to all sorts 

 of landscape work, especially to informal 

 undertakings. Will we design an informal 

 border of hardy herbaceous plants? If 

 there is any logical order at all to the 

 composition we shall find it dividing easily 

 into nodes and internodes. Every row of 



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