THE LANDSCAPE BEAUTIFUL 



gives is an aesthetic v£due. If it is com- 

 mensurable at all it would have to be 

 computed in terms of beauty. 



Before going any further we ought to 

 assure ourselves that we are not to be 

 confused by talking of different kinds of 

 landscape. The gardener may arrange two 

 trees, a dozen shrubs and a rood of grass 

 in such a manner as to make the whole a 

 satisfying work of art, but such a limited 

 quantity of materials will hardly form a 

 landscape in the same sense in which we 

 use that term when we speak of the view 

 from Interlaken toward the Jungfrau, from 

 the top of the Washington monument, or 

 from any other point of vantage. We are 

 apparently dealing with two different 

 things here, in which elements of beauty 

 may be unlike, and it may be important to 

 bear this distinction in mind. Inasmuch, 

 however, as this inquiry started from the 

 standpoint of the landscape gardener, we 

 cannot now discard his works; and as it is 

 obviously of importance to understand at 

 the same time wherein the beauty of 

 natural landscape consists, we can not drop 

 that part of the subject either. 



In its broad sense, therefore, a land- 



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