SUMMARY 



the man who loves the natural landscape 

 should find a double joy in the refined, har- 

 monized and humanized renderings of the 

 same themes as offered by the artists of 

 lawn and lake and forest, while, on the 

 other hand, the best landscape architects 

 have always derived their main inspiration 

 from the beauties of nature. 



These discussions of landscape garden- 

 ing occupy essays six to eleven; where- 

 upon we are ready to proceed to some 

 practical applications. The nature lover 

 simply enjoys the contemplation of such 

 beauties as he finds offered; the landscape 

 gardener tries to create, or at least to as- 

 semble and organize, such pictures for 

 himself and for those who appreciate 

 them. But he, and we also, wish to go 

 further and to make this art the means of 

 many practical benefits to society. We 

 want to make the cities and the open coun- 

 try more beautiful and comfortable, as 

 we have said in Essay Twelve; and we want 

 to use this tremendous capital of beauty 

 for the instruction of every child in the 

 public schools, as outlined in Essay Seven- 

 teen. Incidentally, we notice, in Essays 

 Fourteen and Fifteen, some applications 



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