THE LANDSCAPE BEAUTIFUL 



When the landscape architect puts his 

 materials together, — his lawns, rocks, trees, 

 shrubs, pergolas and ponds, — he is com- 

 posing pictures in the same sense and in 

 much the same way as does the landscape 

 painter. He arranges the various elements 

 to give certain groupings when seen from 

 certain points of view. From each view- 

 point he imagines a certain picture, com- 

 plete in itself and somewhat definitely 

 framed within certain limits. It is evident 

 that Professor Santayana does not have 

 in mind the landscape architect when he 

 speaks of the landscape as "indeterminate," 

 and says that "landscape appeals to us as 

 music does to those who have no sense of 

 musical form." 



Of course, these pieces of landscape, 

 artificially produced within limited bounds, 

 present the same elements of beauty as 

 those found in a painted landscape. Only 

 we ought to notice that whatever means 

 the painter may have of stimulating the 

 imagination, — of exciting strong and 

 agreeable tensions in the body, — such 

 means are far surpassed by those com- 

 manded by the landscape gardener. The 

 magnitude counts for something, the three 



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