PREFACE 



usually termed grading, also represents an impor- 

 tant field for study and involves much artistic 

 training and natural ability. Finally, roads and 

 paths are required to enjoy the finished effect, 

 provided they are so arranged as not to mar it. 



When suflScient skill and knowledge on these 

 points have been attained there should be associ- 

 ated with them for entire success a breadth of 

 vision and a matured judgment which can be 

 arrived at only by a sympathetic study of the 

 works of masters in landscape architecture. The 

 study of such great examples as Central Park, 

 New York, and Prospect Park, Brooklyn, and 

 in Europe such places as the great park laid out 

 at Muskau, in Southern Prussia, by Prince Puckler ; 

 some of the parks in the neighborhood of Berlin; 

 certain of the great English country places, notably 

 Haddon Hall, will do much to give soundness 

 of vision and the needed critical faculty. It may 

 be said also that the study of all landscapie-garden- 

 ing designs affords a source of more or less valuable 

 education. 



It is with this end in view that the following 

 chapters undertake to present by means of text 

 and illustrations the efforts of one student of the 

 art. 



